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Monsters of the Market Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism

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ISBN-10: 1608462331

ISBN-13: 9781608462339

Edition: 2012

Authors: David McNally

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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 Marx’s 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.
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Historical Materialism
Publication date: 8/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

David McNally has enjoyed an extensive international business career and is among an elite group of recipients-only 186-of the Council of Peers Award for Excellence (CPAE) Speaker Hall of Fame by the National Speakers Association (NSA). David is also a bestselling author and an award-winning film producer. He is the author of the bestselling "Even Eagles Need a Push: Learning to Soar in a Changing World" and "The Eagle's Secret: Success Strategies for Thriving at Work and in Life."   Karl D. Speak consults and speaks on brand management issues with companies and organizations globally. At the foundation of his experience and knowledge are his activities connected with Beyond Marketing…    

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
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-capitalism 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
References
Index