Ebook {Epub PDF} Dead Pledges: Debt Crisis and Twenty-First-Century Culture by Annie McClanahan

 · "In a series of nuanced yet militant readings, McClanahan makes an incisive case for the centrality of the political economy of debt to contemporary art, culture, and politics. Dead Pledges is a powerful contribution to cultural and social theory that advances the debate over capital and its representations, a debate of vital importance to economic thought, artistic practice, and political action."Brand: Stanford University Press. Thus, in the twenty-first century, credit and debt are no longer two reversible perspectives on the same circular exchange (money passing from lender to borrower and back again); rather, they represent two fundamentally antagonistic subject and class positions. Today, most of us number among the ever-growing hordes of the living indebted. Dead Pledges contends that in a moment of debt crisis—in a moment in which the fantasy of credit as a salutary cultural and social form has been abandoned—the standard modes for representing credit and debt have likewise been altered. The credit-crisis texts analyzed in this book reveal the overt risks, phantasmatic realities, and incalculable debts that a debt economy can no longer redeem.

Author: Annie McClanahan Editor: Post*45 ISBN: File Size: 79,32 MB Format: PDF, Docs Read: "In a series of nuanced yet militant readings, McClanahan makes an incisive case for the centrality of the political economy of debt to contemporary art, culture, and politics. Dead Pledges is a powerful contribution to cultural and social theory that advances the debate over capital and its representations, a debate of vital importance to. Annie McClanahan's Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture makes a convincing case that in a post world, debt, and not credit, is "the defining feature of economic life" (1). The book, which takes its title from the French mort gage, begins with the argument that while debt and credit entail each other, there is a crucial difference between the two.

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