Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism (repost)
Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism by David McNally
English | 2011-07-12 | ISBN: 9004201572 | PDF | 296 pages | 2,5 MB
English | 2011-07-12 | ISBN: 9004201572 | PDF | 296 pages | 2,5 MB
Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marxs persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, Monsters of the Market offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of a global market-system. The book thus makes original contributions to political economy, cultural theory, commodification-studies and body-theory.