Monsters of the Market

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ISBN: 9781608462339 | 1608462331
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/21/2012

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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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Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Figures	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Dissecting the Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy and the Rise of Capitalism	p. 17
'Save my body from the surgeons'	p. 20
The culture of dissection: anatomy, colonisation and social order	p. 23
Political anatomy, wage-labour and destruction of the English commons	p. 37
Anatomy and the corpse-economy	p. 51
Monsters of rebellion	p. 59
Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites: Rebel-monsters in the age of Frankenstein	p. 77
The rights of monsters: horror and the split society	p. 88
Marx's Monsters: Vampire-Capital and the Nightmare-World of Late Capitalism	p. 113
Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity	p. 117
The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities	p. 126
'As if by love possessed': vampire-capital and the labouring body	p. 132
Zombie-labour and the 'monstrous outrages' of capital	p. 141
Money: capitalism's second nature	p. 148
'Self-birthing' capital and the alchemy of money	p. 151
Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalism globalisation	p. 156
Enron: case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism	p. 163
'Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every pore'	p. 171
African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation	p. 175
Kinship and accumulation: from the old witchcraft to the new	p. 186
Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital: the new occult economies of globalising capitalism	p. 193
African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities	p. 201
The living dead: zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation	p. 210
Vampire-capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 213
Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of the Earth	p. 228
Conclusion: Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia	p. 253
References	p. 271
Index	p. 291
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