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A Synthesis of TimeContracting the Future

A Synthesis of Time: Contracting the Future [The chapter explores yet another Islamic micro-finance experiment. In focus is a multidimensional set of indeterminate relations articulated amongst four parties: a big multinational company in the process of discharging its corporate social responsibility, a highly valued Islamic welfare organisation keen to implement an Islamic vision for a future economy, a young pious female entrepreneur and inventor, and a group of four women considered skilled and responsive enough to take advantage of external financial, organisational and affective investments. What is of interest is the fact that the parties involved did not share either a uniform or an unvarying understanding of the mutuality they were creating. Each part of the assemblage had, instead, a contingent and situated image of its connections with, obligations to and expectations towards each of the other parts. Much of the chapter revolves around working out the implications of such heterogeneity for the synthesis of time performed, emphasising their indeterminate effects on the future-to-come. On the one hand, the assemblage in question was thoroughly imprinted by the will to improve. On the other, the experiment was equally permeated by a generative aporia that worked to raise the micro-financial interval to the powers of the will to power.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Synthesis of TimeContracting the Future

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-34932-5
Pages
177 –211
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-34933-2_6
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[The chapter explores yet another Islamic micro-finance experiment. In focus is a multidimensional set of indeterminate relations articulated amongst four parties: a big multinational company in the process of discharging its corporate social responsibility, a highly valued Islamic welfare organisation keen to implement an Islamic vision for a future economy, a young pious female entrepreneur and inventor, and a group of four women considered skilled and responsive enough to take advantage of external financial, organisational and affective investments. What is of interest is the fact that the parties involved did not share either a uniform or an unvarying understanding of the mutuality they were creating. Each part of the assemblage had, instead, a contingent and situated image of its connections with, obligations to and expectations towards each of the other parts. Much of the chapter revolves around working out the implications of such heterogeneity for the synthesis of time performed, emphasising their indeterminate effects on the future-to-come. On the one hand, the assemblage in question was thoroughly imprinted by the will to improve. On the other, the experiment was equally permeated by a generative aporia that worked to raise the micro-financial interval to the powers of the will to power.]

Published: Feb 8, 2020

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