ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the three overlapping schools of thought on global finance and digital publics advanced by informational theorists. First, it explores the claim that global finance is now inherently part of the network society. Second, it outlines the idea that global finance exhibits degrees of performativity. Finally, it sets out the argument that insists that global finance is embroiled in autonomist networks of the multitude and communicative labour. Global financial flows have increased dramatically in their volume, in their complexity, and in their connectedness. After the 2008 crisis erupted, Marazzi for example sought to apply some autonomist ideas to make sense of the global financial architecture that had built up over time. According to Marazzi, financialisation arose within the demise of Fordism in the 1970s, which anyhow had reached its limits in gaining an adequate amount of surplus value. Industrial capital pushes an axiomatic desire on to the whole of society to produce quantitative amounts of surplus value.
