Monsters of the market
Subtitle: zombies, vampires, and global capitalism
By: by David McNally
Series: Historical materialism book series -- 30
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004201576
Subjects: Free enterprise; Globalization; Economic aspects; Capitalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dissecting the labouring body : Frankenstein, political anatomy, and the rise of capitalism; title: "Save my body from the surgeons"; title: The culture of dissection : anatomy, colonisation, and social order; title: Political anatomy, wage-labour, and destruction of the English commons; title: Anatomy and the corpse-economy; title: Monsters of rebellion; title: Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites : rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein; title: The rights of monsters : horror and the split society; title: Marx's monsters : vampire-capital and the nightmare-world of late capitalism; title: Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity; title: The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities; title: "As if by love possessed" : vampire-capital and the labouring body; title: Zombie-labour and the "monstrous outrages" of capital; title: Money : capitalism's second nature; title: "Self-birthing" capital and the alchemy of money; title: Wild money : the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation; title: Enron : case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism; title: "Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore"; title: African vampires in the age of globalisation; title: Kinship and accumulation : from the old witchcraft to the new; title: Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital : the new occult economies of globalising capitalism; title: African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities; title: The living dead : zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation; title: Vampire-capitalism in sub-Saharan Africa; title: Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the earth; title: Conclusion ugly beauty : monstrous dreams of utopia.