Cultures of Financialization
Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life
Authors: Haiven, M.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Max Haiven is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University and teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. His research focuses on the fate of the imagination under contemporary forms of capitalism. His work on the imaginative dimensions of finance and the broader social trend towards 'financialization' has appeared in leading journals including Social Text, Cultural Studies, and Mediations. He is guest editor of a special issue of the journal TOPIA on 'The Financialized Imagination and Beyond'. His work on the radical imagination and social movements has appeared in journals including Cultural Critique, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, and The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction: Cultures of Financialization
Pages 1-14
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The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital: The Social Fictions and Metaphoric Wealth of Financialization
Pages 15-42
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Precariousness: Two Spectres of the Financial Liquidation of Social Life
Pages 43-73
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Securitization: Walmart’s Financialized Empire
Pages 74-101
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Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy
Pages 102-129
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Cultures of Financialization
- Book Subtitle
- Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life
- Authors
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- M. Haiven
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-35597-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137355973
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-35596-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-47035-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 225
- Topics