Pure excess : capitalism and the commodity / Todd McGowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGowan, Todd.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Excessively Yours

1. The Apotheosis of Uselessness

2. An Objective Excess

3. Two Forms of Fetishism

4. The Indebted Servant

5. The Reasonable Paranoiac

6. Portrait of the Artist as an Anticapitalist

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780231561808

0231561806

OCLC:

1474240525