The Entelechy of Market versus Lifetime: Conflicting Temporality, Governmentality, and Planetary Crisis

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n59.09

Jorge Labarreda González
Blanca Edith Vergara Ortega
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México 

Abstract:

This article presents an analysis of contemporary crisis, not as a manageably anomaly in the prevailing order but as the expression of a structural conflict between two incommensurate temporalities: time for life —relational, biological, social, territorial, and planetary— and an abstract economic rationality that is presented as a universal ordering principle. From a theoretical-critical, genealogical, and hermeneutic approach, this study examines the notion of market entelechy as a form of truth-telling, a political-institutional device, and a time governance regime. Engaging with biology of knowledge, relational anthropology, eco-semiotics, and critical theory, we show their effects in the normalization of war, the production of split subjectivities, and the Earth’s crisis habitability. Likewise, reading Bruno Traven, as mediated by Walter Benjamin, we examine time-related disputes in the experience of poverty to conclude that this conflict subverts the prevailing rationality and opens up new horizons for rethinking.

Keywords: Market entelechy, lifetime, governance, multispecies coexistence, planetary crisis, social war.