Cultures of Financialization : Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life / by M. Haiven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haiven, M., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Economics.

Communication.

Marketing.

Finance.

Cultural Studies.

Media and Communication.

Financial Economics.

Local Subjects:

Cultural Studies.

Economics.

Media and Communication.

Marketing.

Financial Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Cultures of Financialization argues that, in our age of crisis, the global economy is more invested than ever in culture and the imagination. We must take the idea of 'fictitious capital' seriously as a way to understand the power of finance, and what might be done to stop it.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cultures of Financialization; 1 The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital: The Social Fictions and Metaphoric Wealth of Financialization; 2 Precariousness: Two Spectres of the Financial Liquidation of Social Life; 3 Securitization: Walmart's Financialized Empire; 4 Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy; 5 Creativity: Parables of the Financialized Imagination; 6 Resistance (and its Discontents): Finance, Regulation and Cultural Politics; Conclusions: The Dialectics of Financialized Culture; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349470358

134947035X

9781137355973

1137355972