The Violence of Financial Capitalism: "New Edition" (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
Language: English
Published by Semiotext(e)/ The MIT Press, Los Angeles/ Cambridge and London, 2011
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136pp. Afterward, pp. 97-122; Appendix, "Words in Crisis", [e.g., credit crunch, deleveraging, derivatives, hedge fund, leverage, subprime, systemic risk, LBO, panic, private equity], pp. 123-136. Light brown card wrappers with author name lettering in white across top front cover, above title lettering in white, across upper middle front cover. Tight spine, sharp corners, NO rubbing wear, NO previous owner names. Clean text, but for small ink "corrections" on pp. 19, 29, 31: respectively, 'billion' corrected to 'trillion'; 'intended' to meant'; 'assets' with a small vertical line through the second 's'. Despite these marks cited, the book very much LOOKS and FEELS unread, virtually never opened. But it; put your name in it: study it carefully: "At last, a fresh interpretation of the global economic crisis that vehemently departs from traditional academic canons in order to assert a new kind of economic and political thought. [Author's] insightful reading brings to light the fact that financialization is not an unproductive/parasitic deviation of growing rates of surplus-value and collective saving, but rather a form of capital accumulation, symmetrical to the new processes of social and cognitive production of value. Today's financial crisis can be understood as an important component of capital accumulation rather than the implosive result of a lack of economic expansion."--Antonio Negri [from rear cover].…
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- Title
- The Violence of Financial Capitalism: "New Edition" (Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series)
- Author
- Christian Marazzi/Translators: Kristina Lebedeva and Jason Francis McGimsey
- Publisher
- Semiotext(e)/ The MIT Press, Los Angeles/ Cambridge and London
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1584351020
- ISBN 13
- 9781584351023
- Dimensions
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
The 2010 English-language edition of Christian Marazzi's The Violence of Financial Capitalism made a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to an expanded readership. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent events, up to and including the G20 summit in July 2010 and the broad consensus to reduce government spending that emerged from it. Marazzi, a leading figure in the European postfordist movement, argues that the processes of financialization are not simply irregularities between the traditional categories of wages, rent, and profit, but rather a new type of accumulation adapted to the processes of social and cognitive production today. The financial crisis, he contends, is a fundamental component of contemporary accumulation and not a classic lack of economic growth. Marazzi shows that individual debt and the management of financial markets are actually techniques for governing the transformations of immaterial labor, general intellect, and social cooperation. The financial crisis has radically undermined the very concept of unilateral and multilateral economico-political hegemony, and Marazzi discusses efforts toward a new geomonetary order that have emerged around the globe in response. Offering a radically new understanding of the current stage of international economics as well as crucial post-Marxist guidance for confronting capitalism in its newest form, The Violence of Financial Capitalism is a valuable addition to the contemporary arsenal of postfordist thought. This edition includes the glossary of the esoteric neolanguage of financial capitalism—”Words in Crisis,” from “AAA” to “toxic asset”—written for the first English-language edition, and offers a new afterword by Marazzi.
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