Daniel Krier, William J Swart

Nascar, Sturgis, and the New Economy of Spectacle

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Produktbeschreibung

A brilliant and compelling application of the analytic tools of Critical Theory to NASCAR and Motor Cycle rallies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781608468355
• ISBN-10: 1608468356
• Artikelnr.: 47748589

Autorenporträt

Daniel Krier (Ph.D. Kansas) is associate professor of Sociology at Iowa State University. His writings on critical theory and political economy include Speculative Capitalism: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (W.H. Freeman & Co., 2005) and the co-edited volume Capitalism’s Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique (Brill 2016). William J. Swart (PhD Kansas) is professor of Sociology and Director of the Civitas Honors Program at Augustana University. His articles on critical theory, social movements and identities have appeared in The Sociological Quarterly, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, and Critical Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
1. A Historical Sociology of Spectacle: Economics and the Changing
Modalities of the Carnivalesque
2. Economies of Spectacle and Micro-Primitive Accumulation: A Tale of Two
Cities
3. The Structure of Economies of Spectacle
4. Paying to See: Spectator Markets, the Outlaw Biker Legend and the
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally
5. Paying to be Seen: Sponsorship Markets, Branding and the Management of
Legends
6. Paying to be Seen Enjoying: Trophy Markets, Display and Surplus
Enjoyment
7. Dark Spectacle: Authoritarianism and the Aestheticization of Economics
8. The Future of Economic Spectacles: Virtual Augmentation and the Dialects
of Aura
References
Index