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Book Synopsis.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Inflationary Modernities.- PART 1: LITERATURE.- Chapter 2.- Green-Lighting Gatsby: Austere Modernisms, Exuberant Avant-Gardes, and their Orgastic Futures.- Chapter 3.- Tall Tales and Inflating Bodies: Difference and Repetition in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow.- Chapter 4.- The Work of Art in the Age of AI Reproduction: Inflationary Scripting After Walter Benjamin.- Chapter 5.- Real and Nominal Appearance in Ozick’s Puttermesser Papers.- Chapter 6.- Money and Monetarism: Fiscal Policy, Postmodernism, and Inflation’s Specter.- PART 2: CULTURE.- Chapter 7.- Mark of Shame: On the Surface of the Weimar Hyperinflation.- Chapter 8.- Money to Blow: Inflation in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.- Chapter 9.- Meaning, Truth, Emancipation: From Inflation to Subtraction.- Chapter 10.- Generation Inflation: Pelevin and the Political Economy of Affect.- Chapter 11.- Project Cybersyn, Keynes, and Virtuality.
