Monsters Of The Market: Zombies, Vampires And Global Capitalism: Historical Mate

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Monsters Of The Market: Zombies, Vampires And Global Capitalism by David McNally Everywhere the Market goes it spawns monsters in its wake. From Frankenstein, to Zombies, McNally analyzes these creatures of Capitalism. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeDrawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marxs persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, McNally offers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market-system. Author Biography David McNally Ph.D (1983) is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He is the author of five previous books and has published widely on political economy, Marxism, and contemporary social justice movements Table of Contents AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. 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 commonsAnatomy 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 2. Marxs 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 capitalMoney: capitalisms second natureSelf-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 3. 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 capitalismAfrican fetishes and the fetishism of commodities The living dead: zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation Vampire-capitalism in Sub-Saharan AfricaBewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the Earth Conclusion: Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia ReferencesIndex Review This outstanding new work from David McNally is indispensable for serious monster fans and radicals both and almost giddyingly so for those of us who are both."China Miéville, author of Embassytown"McNally delivers a tour de force analysis of global capital from the upper registers of derivatives trading down to popular fables of African monsters Monsters of the Market is one of the best books Ive read in years and it will definitely stimulate thinking about the nature of globalization, the labor theory of value and the relationship between commodities and speculative objects, collective fantasy, and other nebulous problems confronting historical materialism in the future." Mark Worrell, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"The most vicious of monsters are those with human faces. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism explores Marxs consistent use of folklore and monster as metaphor in his criticism of capitalism. From Frankenstein and the dissection of the market, vampires that feed off the misery of others, among other ideas ... Monsters of the Market is an intriguing way of explorig economics, very much recommended reading." Midwest Book Review"David McNally ... has written an excellent book. [He] approaches the topic from a more comprehensive framework. Unlike other works of "monsterology," he links the production of meaning with the economic mode of production while also researching its manifestations across the world ... Monsters of the Market is well worth reading: it demonstrates that the marginalized those who inevitably become the misshapen have a long history across different cultures of articulating narratives of resistance to the various modes of night thrown up by a pitiless global system." Thomas Ponniah, rabble.ca"This outstanding new work from David McNally is indispensable for serious monster fans and radicals both – and almost giddyingly so for those of us who are both." —China Miéville, author of Embassytown"McNally delivers a tour de force analysis of global capital from the upper registers of derivatives trading down to popular fables of African monsters … Monsters of the Market is one of the best books Ive read in years and it will definitely stimulate thinking about the nature of globalization, the labor theory of value and the relationship between commodities and speculative objects, collective fantasy, and other nebulous problems confronting historical materialism in the future."—Mark Worrell, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"The most vicious of monsters are those with human faces. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism explores Marxs consistent use of folklore and monster as metaphor in his criticism of capitalism. From Frankenstein and the dissection of the market, vampires that feed off the misery of others, among other ideas ... Monsters of the Market is an intriguing way of explorig economics, very much recommended reading."—Midwest Book Review"David McNally ... has written an excellent book. [He] approaches the topic from a more comprehensive framework. Unlike other works of "monsterology," he links the production of meaning with the economic mode of production while also researching its manifestations across the world ... Monsters of the Market is well worth reading: it demonstrates that the marginalized—those who inevitably become the misshapen—have a long history across different cultures of articulating narratives of resistance to the various modes of night thrown up by a pitiless global system."—Thomas Ponniah, rabble.ca Promotional Features in Historical MaterialismPromotion targeting left academic journalsPublished to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conferencePublicity and promotion in conjunction with the authors speaking engagements Long Description Winner of the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marxs persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, McNally offers a novel account of the cultural economy of the global market-system. Review Quote This outstanding new work from David McNally is indispensable for serious monster fans and radicals both -- and almost giddyingly so for those of us who are both." Competing Titles Combined and Uneven Apocalypse: Luciferian Marxism Evan Calder Williams 9781846944680 24.95 John Hunt Publishing 05/11 Description for Sales People Written in an accessible style, despite the academic approach Touches on the broad critical interest in the role of Monsters (especially Vampires and Zombies) in popular culture McNallys multidisciplinary analysis offers critical insights for scholars in many fields, as well as popular readers Details ISBN1608462331 Author David McNally Short Title MONSTERS OF THE MARKET Pages 296 Language English ISBN-10 1608462331 ISBN-13 9781608462339 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 330.122 Residence Minneapolis, MN, US Birth 1946 Year 2012 Imprint Haymarket Books Place of Publication Chicago Country of Publication United States Subtitle Historical Materialism, Volume 30 Series Number 30 NZ Release Date 2012-10-04 UK Release Date 2012-10-04 Publisher Haymarket Books Series Historical Materialism Audience General AU Release Date 2012-09-12 Publication Date 2012-08-21 US Release Date 2012-08-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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