Cultures of financialization: fictitious capital in popular culture and everyday life Haiven, Max

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Haiven, Max

Publication details: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan 2014Description: 225 pISBN:

9781137355966

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DDC classification:

306.3 H2C8

Summary: Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Cultures of Financialization 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. (http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137355966)

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TABLE OF CONTENT

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 Pokeconomy

5. Creativity: Parables of the Financialized Imagination

6. Resistance (and its Discontents): Finance, Regulation and Cultural Politics

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Cultures of Financialization 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.

(http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137355966)

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