The Economy as Cultural System: Theory, Capitalism, Crisis (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements Preface Todd Dufresne Introduction: The Economy as Cultural System: Theory, Capitalism, Crisis Clara Sacchetti 1. The I/Eye of Capital: Classical Theoretical Perspectives on the Spectral Economies of Late Capitalism Thomas M. Kemple 2. Can't Buy Me Love: Psychiatric Capitalism and the Economics of Happiness Joel Faflak 3. Metaphoric Wealth: Finance, Financialization, and the End of Narrative Max Haiven 4. The Burden of Metaphor: Marx's Vampires, Populist Politics, and the Dialectics of Capitalist Abstraction Matthew MacLellan 5. Critical Theory Against the Dispossession of Needs: From Perpetual Crisis to Social Engagement Tim Kaposy 6. Finance and the Social Time of Aging: Toward a Synthesis Justin Sully 7. The Work Idea: Wage Slavery, Bullshit, and the Good Infinite Mark Kingwell 8. The Uniqueness of Late Capitalism: Biopower and Biopolitics Kezia Picard 9. Place, Creativity, and Richard Florida: On the Aesthetics of Economic Development Todd Dufresne and Clara Sacchetti 10. Franco "Bifo" Berardi & the Future of Capitalism: "We Have to Run Along The Line of Catastrophe" Andrew Pendakis References