Financial psychedelia and the commons / Andrea Fumagalli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fumagalli, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

In common

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grateful Dead (Musical group).

Libertarianism.

Counterculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

This book pays homage to a rock band that has most influenced alternative culture, the Grateful Dead. It critically discussing the evolution of the libertarian spirit in the USA, which was born and developed in the 1960s and merged in the last three decades into a libertarian ideology, based on individual freedom, antistatalism and the primacy of the spirit of the self-made man. Examining how this transition was functional, on the one hand, to high-tech digital innovation and, on the other, to the spirit of new platform capitalism. Andrea Fumagalli suggests that the process of capturing the libertarian spirit for capitalist purposes, which represents one of the clearest examples of "life subsumption", the acknowledgment that the life of individuals at the very moment that it triggers processes of social cooperation is a potential source of subversive behaviour, and how this can turn into a powerful tool for today's capitalist valorisation.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Counterculture and Cyberculture: the Sixties vs the Ninties

Chapter 2: The Music of the Grateful Dead

Chapter 3: Exodus, Community Spirit, and the Commons

Chapter 4: Open Source between Hacker Spirit and Anarcho-Capitalism

Chapter 5: The Money of the Commonwealth and the Financial Counterculture

Chapter 6: Desiring Subjectivities and Californian Ideology. Towards a New Form of Subsumption?

Final Note: Towards a Financial Psychedelia?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350413887

OCLC:

1520507275