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  • The Ascendancy of Finance

    by Joseph Vogl ...
    Translated by Simon Garnett ...
    The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the neoliberal credo, the recent crisis has been used to realize the politically impossible and to re-align executive power with the interests of the ... Read more

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  • The Specter of Capital

    by Joseph Vogl ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalism—with its bewildering array of new instruments—by tracing the historical stages through which the financial market achieved its current autonomy. Classical and neoclassical economic theorists have played a decisive role here. Ignoring early warnings about the instability of ... Read more

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  • The Specter of Capital

    by Joseph Vogl ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    In his brilliant interdisciplinary analysis of the global financial crisis, Joseph Vogl aims to demystify finance capitalism—with its bewildering array of new instruments—by tracing the historical stages through which the financial market achieved its current autonomy. Classical and neoclassical economic theorists have played a decisive role here. Ignoring early warnings about the instability of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Capital and Ressentiment

    A Short Theory of the Present

    by Joseph Vogl ...
    Translated by Neil Solomon ...
    The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, forming a deep pool of ressentiment that is being drawn upon and exploited by populist and authoritarian leaders.In his new book, Joseph Vogl shows how this dynamic is rooted in the fusing of finance capital and information in a new form of information capitalism ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Critical Theory at a Crossroads

    Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis

    We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Critical Theory at a Crossroads

    Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis

    We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Money

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