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Monsters of the Market investigates modern capitalism through the prism of the body panics it arouses. Examining Frankenstein, Marx's Capital and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, it offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of global capitalism.
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Monsters of the Market investigates modern capitalism through the prism of the body panics it arouses. Examining Frankenstein, Marx's Capital and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa, it offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of global capitalism.
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- Verlag: Brill
- Seitenzahl: 308
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 252mm x 169mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 641g
- ISBN-13: 9789004201576
- ISBN-10: 9004201572
- Artikelnr.: 33834025
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Brill
- Seitenzahl: 308
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2011
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 252mm x 169mm x 23mm
- Gewicht: 641g
- ISBN-13: 9789004201576
- ISBN-10: 9004201572
- Artikelnr.: 33834025
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
David McNally, Ph.D (1983) is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He is the author of five previous books and has published widely on political economy, Marxism, and contemporary social justice movements.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Dissecting the Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy and the
Rise of Capitalism
'Save my body from the surgeons'
The culture of dissection: anatomy, colonisation and social order
Political anatomy, wage-labour and destruction of the English commons
Anatomy and the corpse-economy
Monsters of rebellion
Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites: rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein
The rights of monsters: horror and the split society
2. Marx's Monsters: Vampire-Capital and the Nightmare-World of Late
Capitalism
Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity
The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities
'As if by love possessed': vampire capital and the labouring body
Zombie-labour and the 'monstrous outrages' of capital
Money: capitalism's second nature
'Self-birthing' capital and the alchemy of money
Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation
Enron: case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism
'Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore'
3. African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation
Kinship and accumulation: from the old witchcraft to the new
Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital: the new occult economies of
globalising capitalism
African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities
The living dead: zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation
Vampire-capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the
Earth
Conclusion: Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia
References
Index
Introduction
1. Dissecting the Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy and the
Rise of Capitalism
'Save my body from the surgeons'
The culture of dissection: anatomy, colonisation and social order
Political anatomy, wage-labour and destruction of the English commons
Anatomy and the corpse-economy
Monsters of rebellion
Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites: rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein
The rights of monsters: horror and the split society
2. Marx's Monsters: Vampire-Capital and the Nightmare-World of Late
Capitalism
Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity
The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities
'As if by love possessed': vampire capital and the labouring body
Zombie-labour and the 'monstrous outrages' of capital
Money: capitalism's second nature
'Self-birthing' capital and the alchemy of money
Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation
Enron: case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism
'Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore'
3. African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation
Kinship and accumulation: from the old witchcraft to the new
Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital: the new occult economies of
globalising capitalism
African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities
The living dead: zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation
Vampire-capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the
Earth
Conclusion: Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia
References
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Dissecting the Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy and the
Rise of Capitalism
'Save my body from the surgeons'
The culture of dissection: anatomy, colonisation and social order
Political anatomy, wage-labour and destruction of the English commons
Anatomy and the corpse-economy
Monsters of rebellion
Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites: rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein
The rights of monsters: horror and the split society
2. Marx's Monsters: Vampire-Capital and the Nightmare-World of Late
Capitalism
Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity
The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities
'As if by love possessed': vampire capital and the labouring body
Zombie-labour and the 'monstrous outrages' of capital
Money: capitalism's second nature
'Self-birthing' capital and the alchemy of money
Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation
Enron: case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism
'Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore'
3. African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation
Kinship and accumulation: from the old witchcraft to the new
Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital: the new occult economies of
globalising capitalism
African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities
The living dead: zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation
Vampire-capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the
Earth
Conclusion: Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia
References
Index
Introduction
1. Dissecting the Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy and the
Rise of Capitalism
'Save my body from the surgeons'
The culture of dissection: anatomy, colonisation and social order
Political anatomy, wage-labour and destruction of the English commons
Anatomy and the corpse-economy
Monsters of rebellion
Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites: rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein
The rights of monsters: horror and the split society
2. Marx's Monsters: Vampire-Capital and the Nightmare-World of Late
Capitalism
Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity
The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities
'As if by love possessed': vampire capital and the labouring body
Zombie-labour and the 'monstrous outrages' of capital
Money: capitalism's second nature
'Self-birthing' capital and the alchemy of money
Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation
Enron: case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism
'Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore'
3. African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation
Kinship and accumulation: from the old witchcraft to the new
Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital: the new occult economies of
globalising capitalism
African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities
The living dead: zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation
Vampire-capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the
Earth
Conclusion: Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia
References
Index