Revenge Capitalism -The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts ,Max Haiven

-Résumé

This book is a hybrid work of revolutionary storytelling with scholarly characteristics. I am not aiming to offer a comprehensive theory of revenge or of capitalism but, rather, to explore the generative tensions that come from holding revenge and capitalism together in uncomfortable proximity. 

In this book, revenge will appear in a number of forms to help us triangulate the operations and impacts of capitalism today: sometimes it names a political affect or “structure of feeling” generated within capitalism and which helps in some way reproduce the system.

Other times revenge appears as a metaphor for the particularly horrific, self-justifying and destructive operations of capital in a moment of crisis. Still other times revenge describes a characteristic of the overarching structure of capitalism’s accumulation.

If, as I have argued, how we talk about revenge is a matter of cultural power and political meaning-making, then this book seeks to make an intervention in that field: my gambit is that by redefining revenge as systemic, structural and inherent to capitalism, something new comes into focus.

-Contents

Preface
Introduction: we want revenge
1 Toward a materialist theory of revenge

Interlude: Shylock’s vindication, or Venice’s bonds?
2 The work of art in an age of unpayable debts: social reproduction, geopolitics, and settler colonialism

Interlude: Ahab’s coin, or Moby Dick’s currencies?
3 Money as a medium of vengeance: colonial accumulation and proletarian practices

Interlude: Khloé Kardashian’s revenge body, or the Zapatisa nobody?
4 Our Opium Wars: pain, race, and the ghosts of empire

Interlude: V’s vendetta, or Joker’s retribution?
5 The dead zone: financialized nihilism, toxic wealth, and vindictive technologies

Conclusion: revenge fantasy or avenging imaginary?
Coda: 11 theses on revenge capitalism
Postscript: after the pandemic – against the vindictive normal

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :20 mai 2020

Poids: 513 g

N.de pages : 288 pages

ISBN-13 : 978-0745340555

Dimensions: 13.97 x 2.06 x 21.59 cm

Éditeur : Pluto Press

Langue :  Anglais