The economy as cultural system : theory, capitalism, crisis /
edited by Todd Dufresne and Clara Sacchetti.
- 1st ed.
- New York, NY : Continuum International Pub., 2013.
- xv, 200 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-193) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Contributor list -- Preface / Todd Dufresne -- Introduction : the economy as cultural system : theory, capitalism, crisis / Clara Sacchetti -- The I/eye of capital : classical theoretical perspectives on the spectral economies of late capitalism / Thomas M. Kemple -- Can't buy me love : psychiatric capitalism and the economics of happiness / Joel Faflak -- Metaphoric wealth : finance, financialization, and the end of narrative / Max Haiven -- The burden of metaphor : Marx's vampires, populist politics, and the dialectics of capitalist abstraction / Matthew MacLellan -- Critical theory against the dispossession of needs : from perpetual crisis to social engagement / Tim Kaposy -- Finance and the social time of aging : toward a synthesis / Justin Sully -- The work idea : wage slavery, bullshit, and the good infinite / Mark Kingwell -- The uniqueness of late capitalism : biopower and biopolitics / Kezia Picard -- Place, creativity, and Richard Florida : on the aesthetics of economic development / Todd Dufresne and Clara Sacchetti -- Franco Bifo Berardi & the future of capitalism : "we have to run along the line of catastrophe" / Andrew Pendakis -- References.
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Capitalism--Social aspects--History--21st century. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Economic development.