Kapital als Medium

The book “Capital as Medium“ takes a fresh look at the concept of capital from a media-philosophical perspective and interprets the often lamented opacity of economic processes as an expression of their specifically medial character. To this end, it systematically examines digital-capitalist structures on the one hand by treating the indistinguishability of technological and economic processes as a structural feature of digital capitalism; and genealogically by tracing the economy of modernity back to late antique and early Christian “Oikonomia“, thereby revealing theological influences that are opaque to it itself but subliminally govern concepts such as money, market and property.