Monsters of the market : zombies, vampires, and global capitalism / by David McNally.
"Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampi...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
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Table of Contents:
- Dissecting the labouring body : Frankenstein, political anatomy, and the rise of capitalism
- "Save my body from the surgeons"
- The culture of dissection : anatomy, colonisation, and social order
- Political anatomy, wage-labour, and destruction of the English commons
- Anatomy and the corpse-economy
- Monsters of rebellion
- Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites : rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein
- The rights of monsters : horror and the split society
- Marx's monsters : vampire-capital and the nightmare-world of late capitalism
- Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity
- The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities
- "As if by love possessed" : vampire-capital and the labouring body
- Zombie-labour and the "monstrous outrages" of capital
- Money : capitalism's second nature
- "Self-birthing" capital and the alchemy of money
- Wild money : the occult economies of late-capitalist globalisation
- Enron : case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism
- "Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore"
- African vampires in the age of globalisation
- Kinship and accumulation : from the old witchcraft to the new
- Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital : the new occult economies of globalising capitalism
- African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities
- The living dead : zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation
- Vampire-capitalism in sub-Saharan Africa
- Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the earth
- Conclusion ugly beauty : monstrous dreams of utopia.