ISBN:
9781137355966
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (234 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultures of Financialization : Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Communication
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈p 〉Drawing on a wide range of case studies, 〈span style=""font-style:italic;"" 〉Cultures of Financialization〈/span〉 argues that, in our age of crisis, the global economy is more invested than ever in culture and the imagination. We must take the idea of 'fictitious capital' seriously as a way to understand the power of finance, and what might be done to stop it
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cultures of Financialization; 1 The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital: The Social Fictions and Metaphoric Wealth of Financialization; 2 Precariousness: Two Spectres of the Financial Liquidation of Social Life; 3 Securitization: Walmart's Financialized Empire; 4 Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy; 5 Creativity: Parables of the Financialized Imagination; 6 Resistance (and its Discontents): Finance, Regulation and Cultural Politics; Conclusions: The Dialectics of Financialized Culture; Works Cited; Index
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