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How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (Hardcover)
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How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now (Hardcover)
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Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, the notion that
capitalism has become too abstract for all but the most rarefied
specialists to understand has been widely presupposed. Yet even in
academic circles, the question of abstraction itself - of what
exactly abstraction is, and does, under financialisation - seems to
have gone largely unexplored - or has it? By putting the question
of abstraction centre stage, How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital
Now offers an indispensable counterpoint to the 'economic turn' in
the humanities, bringing together leading literary and cultural
critics in order to propose that we may know far more about
capital's myriad abstractions than we typically think we do.
Through in-depth engagement with classic and cutting-edge
theorists, agile analyses of recent Hollywood films, groundbreaking
readings of David Foster Wallace's sprawling, unfinished novel, The
Pale King, and even original poems, the contributors here suggest
that the machinations and costs of finance - as well as
alternatives to it - may already be hiding in plain sight. This
book was originally published as a special issue of Textual
Practice.
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