Crises are moments for writing into which rush those who had anticipated, described and understood the crises better than others. There is also an opportunity to reread authors from the more or less distant past confronted by similar situations. The writings are presented here in the form of epigrams, and are sometimes accompanied by an ironic commentary, to which the genre lends itself. An overall view of the texts thus examined reveals the importance of the category of the debt, its evaluation and its possible concealment in the accounting process, as the central category of the crisis. Finally, the figure of the pyramid which is the most frequently used geometrisation of the debt is made explicit in its antagonistic forms of extreme solidity and extreme fragility; a paradox or chiasmus which could well ultimately be that of institutions in general and that of currency in particular.
Posté par Caroline Marti, mis à jour le 14 avril 2014
