Max Haiven (Canada Lakehead University)

Revenge Capitalism

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Capitalism has become a system of economic revenge, meted out against oppressed populations around the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780745340562
• ISBN-10: 0745340563
• Artikelnr.: 58341816

Autorenporträt

Max Haiven is Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University, Canada. His books include Art after Money, Money after Art (Pluto, 2018), Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power (Zed Books, 2004), Cultures of Financialization (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) and the Radical Imagination (Zed Books, 2014).

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