The Emotional Logic of Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Emotional Logic of Capitalism write by Martijn Konings. This book was released on 2015-05-27. The Emotional Logic of Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism.
Cold Intimacies
Cold Intimacies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cold Intimacies write by Eva Illouz. This book was released on 2013-04-23. Cold Intimacies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest. Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. This dual process by which emotional and economic relationships come to define and shape each other is called emotional capitalism. Illouz finds evidence of this process of emotional capitalism in various social sites: self-help literature, women's magazines, talk shows, support groups, and the Internet dating sites. How did this happen? What are the social consequences of the current preoccupation with emotions? How did the public sphere become saturated with the exposure of private life? Why does suffering occupy a central place in contemporary identity? How has emotional capitalism transformed our romantic choices and experiences? Building on and revising the intellectual legacy of critical theory, this book addresses these questions and offers a new interpretation of the reasons why the public and the private, the economic and the emotional spheres have become inextricably intertwined.
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism write by Fredric Jameson. This book was released on 1992-01-06. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
The Nature and Logic of Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature and Logic of Capitalism write by Robert L. Heilbroner. This book was released on 1985. The Nature and Logic of Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A social analysis of capitalism. Nature and logic of social systems and capitalism.
Capitalism and Desire
Capitalism and Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capitalism and Desire write by Todd McGowan. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Capitalism and Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.
