Trading Futures

The discourse of financialized capitalism tries to create a future predictable enough to manage risk for the wealthy to shape the future into a profit-making site that constrains and privatizes the sense of what's possible. Here people's hopes and meaning-making energies are policed through the burden of debt. In <i>Trading Futures</i> Filipe Maia offers a theological reflection on hope and the future calling for escape routes from the debt economy. Drawing on Marxism continental philosophy and Latin American liberation theology Maia provides a critical portrayal of financialization as a death-dealing mechanism that colonizes the future in its own image. Maia elaborates a Christian eschatology of liberation that offers a subversive mode of imagining future possibilities. He shows how the Christian vocabulary of hope can offer a way to critique the hegemony of financialized capitalism propelling us in the direction of a just future that financial discourse cannot manage or control.