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Liverpool University Press Fables of Development: Capitalism and Social
Book SynopsisFables of Development: Capitalism and Social Imaginaries in Spain (1950-1967) focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called “Spanish economic miracle” —a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process— was fictionally portrayed through providential narratives in which supernatural and extraordinary elements were often involved? In order to answer this question, this book examines cultural fictions and social life at the time when Spain turned from autarchy to the project of industrial and tourist development. Beyond the narratives about progress, modernity, and consumer satisfaction on a global and national level, the cultural archives of the period offer intellectual findings about the expectations of a social majority who lived in the precariousness and who did not have sufficient income to acquire the consumer goods that were advertised. Through the scrutiny of interdisciplinary archives (literary texts, cinema, newsreels, comics, and journalistic sources, among other cultural artifacts), each chapter offers an analysis of the social imaginaries about the circulation and distribution of capital and resources in the period from 1950, when General Franco’s government began to integrate into international markets and institutions following its agreements with the United States, to 1967, when the implementation of the First Development Plan (1964-1967) was completed.Trade Review“Drawing inspiration from Fredric Jameson, Walter Benjamin and Cornelius Castoriadis, Ana Fernández-Cebrián historicizes the providential narratives and extraordinary/supernatural discourses accompanying the “economic miracle” of Franco dictatorship’s developmentalist turn. This is an impressive contribution toward understanding an uneven geopolitical landscape whose ideological features remain all too familiar.”Benjamin Fraser, Professor of Iberian Studies, The University of ArizonaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. Dreamworlds of Development: Cold War Imaginaries in Franco’s Spain1: Fables of Intervention2: Fables of Outer SpaceII. Providential Capitalism3: Fables of Chance4: Fables of GraceAfterword
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Taylor & Francis Authoritarian Neoliberalism
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Cambridge University Press Resisting Racial Capitalism
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Cambridge University Press Virtue Capitalists
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Cambridge University Press Late Soviet Britain
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Cambridge University Press The Future of Work in Diverse Economic Systems
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Pluto Press The Message is Murder
Book SynopsisA compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.Trade Review'Jonathan Beller powerfully addresses the most urgent issue of today's political economy: the gradual merging of capital and computation into new structures of power' -- Matteo Pasquinelli, Professor of Media Theory, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe'Beller is one of the leading and pioneering theorists of the political economy of attention. This book is extremely pertinent for a readership seeking news ways of understanding contemporary capitalism. Beller has developed an original strategy by placing media archaeology and critical race theory in dialogue with the popularized work of Marshall McLuhan, and also by using Marx and Borges as interlocutors of well-known cyber-theorists such as Turing and Shannon' -- Allen Feldman, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and author of Archives of the Insensible'So-called digital culture operates on and intensifies a substrate of racial-capitalist calculation that precedes the invention of the electronic digital computer. Jonathan Beller's remarkable book examines the implications of this foundational claim through 'poetico-theoretical' analyses of information theory, literature, and cinema. By tracking the co-constitutive operations of economics, informatics, visuality, and psychology, Beller reveals the violent formations that ground contemporary mediatic regimes' -- Seb Franklin, author of Control: Digitality as Cultural LogicTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Informatics of Inscription/Inscription of Informatics 1. Gramsci’s Press: Why We Game 2. A Message from Borges: The Informatic Labyrinth 3. Alan Turing’s Self-Defense: On Not Castrating the Machines 4. Shannon/Hitchcock: Another Method for the Letters 5. The Internet of Value, by Karl Marx: Information as Cosmically Distributed Alienation Part II: Photo-graphology, Psychotic Calculus and Informatic Labor 6. Camera Obscura After All: The Racist Writing with Light 7. Pathologistics of Attention 8. Prosthetics of Whiteness: Drone Psychosis 9. The Capital of Information: Fractal Fascism, Informatic Labor and M-I-M’ Appendix: From the Cinematic Mode of Production to Computational Capital – An Interview conducted by Ante Jeric and Diana Meheik for Kulturpunk Notes Index
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