Max Haiven

Revenge Capitalism (eBook, ePUB)

The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life.

In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today, he examines the opioid crisis in the US, the growth of 'surplus populations' worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts - both as reparations owed, and as a methodology of oppression.

Revenge Capitalism offers no easy answers, but is a powerful call to the radical imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786806178
• Artikelnr.: 63994391

Autorenporträt

Max Haiven is Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include Revenge Capitalism, Art after Money, Money after Art, Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power and The Radical Imagination.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: we want revenge
1. Toward a materialist theory of revenge
Interlude: Shylock's vindication, or Venice's bonds?
2. The work of art in an age of unpayable debts: social reproduction,
geopolitics, and settler colonialism
Interlude: Ahab's coin, or Moby Dick's currencies?
3. Money as a medium of vengeance: colonial accumulation and proletarian
practices
Interlude: Khloé Kardashian's revenge body, or the Zapatisa nobody?
4. Our Opium Wars: pain, race, and the ghosts of empire
Interlude: V's vendetta, or Joker's retribution?
5. The dead zone: financialized nihilism, toxic wealth, and vindictive
technologies
Conclusion: revenge fantasy or avenging imaginary?
Coda: 11 theses on revenge capitalism
Postscript: after the pandemic - against the vindictive normal
Notes
Index