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Moments of Capital - World Theory, World Literature (Hardcover)
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Moments of Capital - World Theory, World Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
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Undertaken at the interface of critical theory and world
literature, Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and
heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli
Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three
synchronous moments: primitive accumulation, expanded reproduction,
and the "synthetic dispossession" facilitated by financialization
and privatization. These moments correspond to distinct economic
and political forms, and distinct strands of theory and fiction.
Moments of Capital integrates various intellectual traditions-from
multiple trajectories of Marxist thought, to Weberian inquiries
into the "spirit" of capitalism, to anticolonial accounts of racial
depredation-to reveal the concurrent interrelation of the three
moments of capital. The book's literary readings, meanwhile, make
vivid the uneven texture and experience of capitalist modernity at
large. Analyzing formally and thematically diverse novels-works by
Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Marlon James, Jennifer Egan, Eugene Lim,
Rafael Chirbes, Neel Mukherjee, Rachel Kushner, and
others-Jelly-Schapiro evinces the different patterns of feeling and
consciousness that register, and hypothesize a way beyond, the
contradictions of capital. This book develops a new conceptual key
for the mapping of contemporary theory, world literature, and
global capital itself.
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