Cultures of Financialization [electronic resource] : Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life /
Haiven, M.author.
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.
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Economics.
Communication.
Marketing.
Finance.
Cultural Studies.
Economics, general.
Media Studies.
Marketing.
Finance, general.
Media and Communication.