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Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the current economic crisis. Through a ranging series of analyses and perspectives, it argues that cynicism has become culturally embedded in the UK and US as an effect of disempowerment by neoliberal capitalism. Yet despite the deprivation and collapse of key social infrastructure like representative democracy, welfare, workers' rights and equal access to resources, there has so far been no collective, effective and sustained overthrow of capitalism. Why is this? The book's central call is for new strategies that unravel this narcissistic cynicism, embracing social democracy, constitutional rights, mass bankruptcies and animate sabotage. Kafka, Foucault, Ballard and de Sade are clashed with the X-Factor, ruinporn, London, and the artwork of Laura Oldfield Ford. Negative Capitalism's polemic is written to incite responses against the cynical malaise of the neoliberal era.
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EconomicsTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Argument
- 1. What is Negative Capitalism?
- 2. Power versus Life: the Melancholia of Control
- 3. Neoliberalism; Or, the Economic Politic of Negative Capitalism
- 4. Debt: An Idiot’s Guide to Defaulting the Future
- 5. Anxiety Machines
- 6. Perverted by Language
- 7. Generation Meh
- 8. New Flesh: Non-places and Gonzo Porn
- 9. The Drowned and the Saved
- 10. Conclusion: A Politics of the Zoo
- Endnotes
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