John ComaroffThinkers

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Capitalism is paradoxical in that it appears both to include and to marginalize in unanticipated ways... to produce desire and expectation on a global scale (trouillot 1999) yet to decrease the certainty of work or the security of persons... to magnify class differences but to undercut class consciousness... above all, to offer up vast, almost instantaneous riches to those who master its spectral technologies and, simultaneously, to threaten the very existence of those who do not.

The Endogenous historicality of local worlds is the idea that the pieces of reality, however much borrowed from or imposed by others, are woven together through the logic of a group's own locally and historically evolved bricolage.

An Occult economy is a symptom of millennial capitalism involving the making of wealth 'magically appear not through labor but, get rich schemes, speculation, venture capitalism [production is overshadowed by consumption, and acquisition by a means other than labor].