Surveillance and Rhetoric of Control: the case of credit Rating Agencies
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This article presents a rhetorical perspective on rating agencies. Viewed as post-modern state apparatuses, rating agencies such as Standard & Poor's and Moody's exert a decisive influence over public policies through economic surveillance. Ratings shape arguments in international affairs. They operate as a “double rhetoric”, addressing dual audiences – that of investors and that of politicians. Ratings put in play a tension between truth and opinion, which is epitomized by politicians’ surreptitious recourse to prosopopoeia whereby ratings are rhetorically idealized as truth. What is ultimately at stake in this form of surveillance is sovereignty.
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