Dead pledges : debt, crisis, and twenty-first-century culture / Annie McClanahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClanahan, Annie, author.

Series:

Post 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Economic aspects.

Culture.

Debt--Social aspects.

Debt.

Financial crises--Social aspects.

Financial crises.

Physical Description:

ix, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Debt, crisis, and twenty-first -century culture

Debt, crisis, and 21st century culture

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that US culture-from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies-has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, micro economic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, Dead Pledges dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source oi economic credibility, it contends, but a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Social Persons

1 Behavioral Economics and the Credit-Crisis Novel 21

2 Credit, Characterization, Personification 55

Part 2 Home Economics

3 Photography and Foreclosure 99

4 Houses of Horror 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-230) and index.

ISBN:

9780804799058

0804799059

OCLC:

949986809