ABSTRACT This essay sets out to examine the connection between capitalism and ideas about time, focusing on Iain Pears's novel Stone's Fall (2009). Capitalism, with its endless promises of future returns, tends to deploy a model of time oriented around progress toward the future. Pears's narrative, by contrast, subverts this by reversing the timeline, each section of the novel a step backwards in time. The first section of the paper examines how other critics, from Walter Benjamin to Mary Poovey, have used similar reversals to undertake critical genealogies of capitalism's emergence. The second section shows how fiction and finance intersect in the credit economy, blending ethics and economies to train subjects who are, in Nietzsche's words, capable of making promises about the future. The essay closes by looking at the notion of prophetic time, which disrupts the capitalist paradigm through the unexpected return of ancient tragedy in the modern novel.

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伊恩·皮尔斯的《石头的陨落》中的预言时间和资本主义的终结

摘要 本文旨在研究资本主义与时间观念之间的联系，重点关注伊恩·皮尔斯的小说《斯通的秋天》（2009 年）。资本主义及其对未来回报的无限承诺，倾向于部署一种以未来进步为导向的时间模型。相比之下，皮尔斯的叙述通过反转时间线来颠覆这一点，小说的每一部分都在时间上倒退了一步。论文的第一部分考察了其他批评家，从沃尔特·本杰明到玛丽·普维，如何使用类似的逆转来进行资本主义出现的批判谱系。第二部分展示了虚构与金融如何在信用经济中相互交织，将伦理与经济相结合，以培养用尼采的话来说能够对未来做出承诺的主体。