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Cultures of Financialization

Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Max Haiven

    1. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Cultures of Financialization

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital: The Social Fictions and Metaphoric Wealth of Financialization

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 15-42

  4. Precariousness: Two Spectres of the Financial Liquidation of Social Life

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 43-73

  5. Securitization: Walmart’s Financialized Empire

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 74-101

  6. Play: Coming of Age in the Speculative Pokéconomy

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 102-129

  7. Creativity: Parables of the Financialized Imagination

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 130-154

  8. Resistance (and its Discontents): Finance, Regulation and Cultural Politics

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 155-176

  9. Conclusions: The Dialectics of Financialized Culture

    • Max Haiven
    Pages 177-189

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 190-225
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Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Cultures of Financialization argues that, in our age of crisis, the global economy is more invested than ever in culture and the imagination. We must take the idea of 'fictitious capital' seriously as a way to understand the power of finance, and what might be done to stop it.

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  • Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada

    Max Haiven

About the author

Max Haiven is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Art and Public Policy at New York University and teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. His research focuses on the fate of the imagination under contemporary forms of capitalism. His work on the imaginative dimensions of finance and the broader social trend towards 'financialization' has appeared in leading journals including Social Text, Cultural Studies, and Mediations. He is guest editor of a special issue of the journal TOPIA on 'The Financialized Imagination and Beyond'. His work on the radical imagination and social movements has appeared in journals including Cultural Critique, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, and The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.

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