The Popular Economy and the ?Real?

GAGO, VERÓNICA; ALEXANDRE ROIG

Río de Janeiro

Workshop; Real Economy: ethnographic inquiries into the reality and realisation of Economic Life; 2016

Werner Green and UFJR

Thinking about how finance, in the way in which it includes the popular economy in its heterogeneous dynamic, leads a new type of extractive dynamic (Gago and Mezzadra 2015), capable of providing an abstract and moralizing code for contemporary accumulation. We approached these questions concretely to refine a concept of ?financial exploitation,? through empirical investigations of popular economies that constitute the real space for finance's landing in the territories. We are also interested in detecting what type of antagonism can arise against the renewed forms of financial exploitation. Concretely, in what sense is ?the real? of antagonism that which is permanently sought to be invoked and which symptomatically returns? Is there a realism assumed by the popular economies capable of handling finance as a pure machine of capture and abstraction of value? Why is it impossible for ?the real? to be measured and defined?