ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with Market as discourse and explores alternatives to the Smithian vision. It suggests that contemporary understandings of the market are informed as much by critical antiMarket strands in modern thought as by the Market triumphalism of Adam Smith and his successors or, perhaps better, that Market and anti-Market polemics stand in an interior rather than exterior relationship one to another. The chapter begins with that version of anti-Market discourse that has its origins in what some have termed an expressivist critique of modernism. This critique, clearly articulated in both B. Traven's 'anthropological' texts and John Huston's ethical one, has its origins in probably the first major intellectual challenge to 'modernism', what is often called 'romanticism'. Huston's screenplay took significant liberties with the novel on which it was based, perhaps inadvertently telling us something about the trope of demon commodity that is concealed by the anthropological device of a Traven or a Michael Taussig.
