The Cultural Life of Money

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2015

The Cultural Life of Money

Edited by: Isabel Capeloa Gil and Helena Gonçalves da Silva
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 6 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420890

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About this book

The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has been consistently challenged. To understand the current state of affairs, it has become increasingly necessary to understand the conjuncture that rules the production of value in economic systems, how money shapes social relations and affects discursive practices. By discussing the vocabulary, by understanding the rhetoric and interpreting the narratives, be it of crisis, austerity, growth, welfare, neo-liberalism or socialism, new modes of imaging the economic system may be made possible. The book is structured in four chapters dealing with theory and conjuncture (“Philosophies of Money”), with the visual arts and investment (“The Arts and Finance”), with literary representation and narrativity (“Literature and Money Matters”) and with the cognitive impact of fiduciary representation (“Cognitive Moneyscapes”). This collection analyses the process whereby a material icon invested with the symbolical power to rule social exchange becomes an explanatory narrative determining the way societies produce meaning.

Author / Editor information

Isabel Capeloa Gil, UCP - CECC, Lisbon, Portugal; Helena Gonçalves Silva, UL - CECC, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	v
Introduction On the Cultural Life of Money Isabel Capeloa Gil Open Access Download PDF	1
I. Philosophies of Money
Money is Time: Thoughts on Credit and Crisis Samuel Weber Open Access Download PDF	23
Metaphors We Pay For, or: Metaphors of the ‘Financial Crisis’ Shaping the Cultural Life of Money Ansgar Nünning Open Access Download PDF	47
Money: From Midas to Madoff João César das Neves Open Access Download PDF	69
II. The Arts and Finance
Death and Diamonds: Finance and Art Joyce Goggin Open Access Download PDF	81
Art and its Potentialities: From the Virtual to Speculation Márcio Seligmann-Silva Open Access Download PDF	97
The Magic Triangle Alfred Opitz Open Access Download PDF	107
III. Literature and Money Matters
Phantom Counterfeits: Credit and Betrayal in a (Post)-Modern Polity Paulo de Medeiros Open Access Download PDF	121
From Miser to Capitalist: An Economic Reading of Aluísio Azevedo’s O Cortiço Vivaldo Andrade dos Santos Open Access Download PDF	131
Not So Far Apart: Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and Martin Amis’s Money Helena Gonçalves da Silva and Teresa Seruya Open Access Download PDF	143
“Outside, the yellow lions are grinning” Drugs, Crime and Ethnic Cleansing in Juli Zeh’s Eagles and Angels Filomena Viana Guarda Open Access Download PDF	155
IV. Cognitive Moneyscapes
Meanings of Money in Literature: D. J. Taylor’s Novel Kept (2006) as a Test Case for Exploring Cognitive Functions of Literature Vera Nünning Open Access Download PDF	165
Cognitive Science and How We Think about Money Ana Margarida Abrantes Open Access Download PDF	181
Second Life: The Emergence of a New Moneyscape Cátia Ferreira Open Access Download PDF	197
Coda: The Art of Giving
Money and Philanthropy: The Idea of Money Emílio Rui Vilar Open Access Download PDF	213
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	219
Index Open Access Download PDF	225

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars in humanities, art and social sciences, cultural managers, informed readers.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 227
Illustrations
- Line drawings: 6
Keywords: Money; culture; representation; fiduciary culture

eBook

Published: July 1, 2015
ISBN: 9783110420890

Hardcover

Published: June 12, 2015
ISBN: 9783110425697

Paperback

Published: November 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783110634549