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  • Currency of Nihilism

    by Amin Samman ...
    Series series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
    What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dilemmas of nihilism in new ways. From cryptocurrencies and meme stocks to Silicon Valley venture capital and the global boom in artificial intelligence, economic life today thrives on the ambiguous ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • History in Financial Times

    by Amin Samman ...
    Series series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
    Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Rather than each ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Clickbait capitalism

    Economies of desire in the twenty-first century

    Edited by Amin Samman, Earl Gammon ...
    The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the idea that the entire contemporary economy is just such a ruse; an elaborate exercise in psychological capture and release.Pushing beyond rationalist accounts of economic life, this volume puts ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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  • Immediacy

    Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

    by Anna Kornbluh ...
    Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural styleContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand that ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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  • Society and Economy

    Framework and Principles

    by Mark Granovetter ...
    Society and Economy—a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology—is the first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Surplus-Enjoyment

    A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But, perversely, without this surplus, we wouldn't be able to enjoy what ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD

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  • Speculative Communities

    Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World

    by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou ...
    Speculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political lives.In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou examines the ways that speculation has moved beyond financial markets to shape fundamental aspects of our social and political lives. As ordinary people make exceptional decisions, ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • On Belief

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    What is the basis of belief in an era when globalization, multiculturalism and big business are the new religion? Slavoj Zizek, renowned philosopher and irrepressible cultural critic takes on all comers in this compelling and breathless new book.From 'cyberspace reason' to the paradox that is 'Western Buddhism', On Belief gets behind the contours of the way we normally think about belief, in ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • Pure Excess

    Capitalism and the Commodity

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more—more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice—is the essence of capitalism. Previous socioeconomic systems set up some form of the social good as their focus. Capitalism, however, represents a revolutionary ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Dark Deleuze

    by Andrew Culp ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm “Power is vertical; potential is horizontal!”Culp ... Read more

    $6.19 CAD

  • Digital Labor

    The Internet as Playground and Factory

    Edited by Trebor Scholz ...
    Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates—leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Incontinence of the Void

    Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Žižek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD