Repressed futures: financial derivatives' theological unconscious

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‘Responsible investment’: ESG and the post-crisis ethical order (2020, background): “This ‘theological unconscious’, Maurer says, is repressed in order to separate ‘God from number’ (Maurer, 2002, p. 30; cf. Miyazaki, 2007).”
Take an issue: cultural economy and finance (2007, background): “…of finance has been central to a growing group of anthropologists who have developed an impressive array of work on finance and money (Riles 2006; Miyazaki 2003, 2005; Miyazaki and Riles 2004; Maurer 1999, 2001, 2002a, 2002b, 2003, 2005a, 2005b; Tsing 2000, 2005; Zaloom 2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2006).”
The Anthropology of Money (2006, background): “Numbers do not always point to enumerable objects in the world (Rotman 1997) but can, for example, also signify the divine, the transcendent, the ineffable (Maurer 2002).”
Market technologies and the pragmatics of prices (2007, background): “Anthropologists interested in material culture have explicitly elaborated on pragmatist theories of signs such as Charles S. Peirce’s (Keane 2003, 2005) and these elaborations have been confronted to the study of economic topics such as finance (Maurer 2002, 2005).”