Sean Capener is a PhD Candidate at the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto and a Henry N.R. Jackman Junior Fellow in the Humanities at the Jackman Humanities Institute. His dissertation focuses on 13th century Parisian arguments around usury; in particular, the debate over the idea that usury constitutes a ‘theft of time,’ which has become a popular point of reference for contemporary critiques of debt and finance. His next two concurrent projects are an investigation into the method of ‘philosophical archaeology’—tracing this concept-metaphor through the work of Immanuel Kant, Michel Foucault, Sylvia Wynter, and Giorgio Agamben—and a philosophical archaeology of the idea of damnation.