Papers by Yordanka Dimitrova
The title of the present essay is an allusion to Lyotard's " Emma: Between philosophy and psychoa... more The title of the present essay is an allusion to Lyotard's " Emma: Between philosophy and psychoanalysis " (1989). The main subject of my discussion, within the context of philosophy and psychoanalysis is philosophy of money, and more particular cultural phenomenology of money. The common place and issue that bridges the coast between philosophy and psychoanalysis, from one side, and cultural phenomenology, from the other, is the embodiment and the so called 'mind body problem'. Within my research interest and field the embodiment apply to money. This essay takes up the question of money in the spirit of the Marx-Freud tradition, as the first part of the essay-Marx's The Fetish Character of Money and Foucault's 'Money is simulacrum'-is concerned with Marx and the second part is devoted to Sigmund Freud's attitude about money. The connection between Marx and Freud, provided here, is through Norman O. Brown's Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, (1985). Brown's concern is the notion of embodiment. He is one of the most interesting philosophers and commentators of Marx and Freud, who returned 'the sacred' to the analysis of 'money' and demeaned both equally. For Brown, 'money' and 'the sacred' were both sublimated products of a revulsion from the body. And such sublimation, whether aimed at god or mammon, is " the denial of life and the body…. The more the life of the body passes into things, the less life there is in the body, and at the same time the increasing accumulation of things represents an ever fuller articulation of the lost life of the body. " (Norman O. Brown, 1985: 297). In the third part of my essay I follow the postmodern perspective, discussing in short some of Jean-Franзois Lyotard's works. As Claire Nouvet, asserts in her The Inarticulate Affect: Lyotard and Psychoanalytic Testimony (2003), " Philosophy rarely, if ever, engages psychoanalysis. It is then all the more noteworthy when a philosopher takes the risk of such an engagement. Jean-Francois Lyotard took this chance repeately and in different modes. " (Nouvet,
In the present essay, devoted to phenomenology, with the first three parts, I will discuss the di... more In the present essay, devoted to phenomenology, with the first three parts, I will discuss the difference and similarities between phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, Jean-Franзois Lyotard's phenomenology and Emmanuel Levinas's ethical phenomenology. In addition, within the following fourth and fifth part of my essay, as an complimentary text related with my research interest and PhD thesis, I will introduce some application of phenomenology of Husserl, Levinas and Lyotard in cultural phenomenology of money, digital currency and blockchain technology, with the aim to investigate and demonstrate how these three phenomenological theories and approaches are critically important for phenomenological research on money in the current decentralized fast-moving crypto economics. In the first part of my essay I offer short introduction of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and his work, Husserl's new understanding of subject of consciousness as rigorous philosophy that must be completely free of all presuppositions. The second part of the essay is discussion on the turn from phenomenology to phenomenological ethics and ethical phenomenology, where I focus on Emmanuel Levinas who elaborated with rigor the phenomenological ethics. Here I state, that if Husserl utilized phenomenological theory to go beyond theory itself to phenomenological theory, Levinas's phenomenology probes even more radically, even to the point of unsettling phenomenology itself. Beside the comparison between Husserl, Heideger and Levinas, in the final lines of the second part of the essay, I discuss Lyotard and Levinas through Lyotard's essay "Levinas' Logic."
Drafts by Yordanka Dimitrova
In the first part of my essay I discuss the philosophy of economics and the role of ethical value... more In the first part of my essay I discuss the philosophy of economics and the role of ethical values in economics. The subject of second part of my work is the philosophy of money, ethics and value. Here the ethical approaches and implementation in philosophy of economics are traced to much more particular philosophical inquiry – philosophy of money, and ethics in philosophy of money. If money are seen now as 'money beyond economics or becoming philosophical' as Leonidas Zelmanovitz establishes with the title of his book (Money Beyond Economics or Becoming Philosophical, 2015), we can also reflect on value, discussed in Simmel's Philosophy of money, as economization of ethics. The third part of my essay is on the theme of the recreation of money as recreation of ethics. Here I discuss how the question of value and ethics related to the philosophy of money become complicated with the advent of the cryptocurrency such as a bitcoin and blockchain technology. With the advent of the crypto currency, such as a bitcoin, and the blockchain technology, the assumptions of the economists who often portray their science as 'value-free' seems quite well defeated, and the importance of ethics and value are now of crucial importance in the decentralized fast moving crypto economy. In the fourth part of the essay I offer discussion on applied ethic's domains within the Crypto Economy, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. My assertion here is that the advent of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology within the fast moving crypto economy will reshape the well known typology of domains of applied ethics, it will trigger transformation of such domains as business ethics, professional ethics, decision ethics, organizational ethics, social ethics. In addition I provide short emphasis on ethics and cryptography, the issue already expanding and impacting the privacy of individuals, corporations, society, power and politics. My emphasis builds on the influential research work of Phillip Rogaway, The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work? (March 2016), The last, fifth part of my essay is discussion on Ethical Money: 'Autonomous Ethically Guided Cryptocurrency.' Cryptocurrency advocates have argued that the ethical dimensions of cryptocurrency are not qualitatively new, insofar as money has always been understood as a passive instrument that lacks ethical values and can be used for good or ill purposes. Here I offer a review
Uploads
Papers by Yordanka Dimitrova
Drafts by Yordanka Dimitrova