... primitive ac-cumulation. As with the stroke of an enchanter’s wand, it endows unpro-ductive money with the power of creation and thus turns it into capital,without forcing it to expose itself ... did not foresee that it would be possible for capital, in the faceof the imminent threat to its existence, to transpoliticize itself, as it were: tolaunch itself into an orbit beyond the relations ... down and dirty with how modern Ameri-can finance works and how it s connected to the real world. It s a systemthat seems overwhelming at times — almost sublime in its complexity andINSTRUMENTS17In...