The contract is capitalism’s most cherished
axiom. It is a projective geometry of obligation and its interiorised
calculus. Emerging simultaneous with capitalism, it has been crucial, among other things, to the organisation of private property and the
subjective dispositions of capitalist legal architecture. It is also, I would
suggest, the very sense of the performative. Briefly put: contracts are
preoccupied with the transformation of contingency into necessity
as a specifically capitalist problem.

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