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Book SynopsisClara Sacchetti is an Adjunct Professor for Philosophy and a sessional lecturer for Women's Studies. Her areas of interest include studies in feminist theory, post-colonial history, and postmodernism. She has published feature articles and reviews in
FUSE Magazine, Boston Book Review, CAN, and
The Semiotic Review of Books. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
