Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. by David McNally. Everywhere the Market goes it spawns monsters in its wake. From Frankenstein, to Zombies, McNally analyzes these creatures of Capitalism. Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie . · David McNally. BRILL, - Political Science - pages. 0 Reviews. Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it Index: market.1 As banks collapsed and global corporations wobbled, and millions were thrown out of work, pundits talked of ‘zombie banks’, ‘zombie econom-ics’, ‘zombie capitalism’, even a new ‘zombie poli-tics’ in which the rich devoured the poor.2 But while zombies took centre-stage, vampires too made their.
Monsters Of The Market: Zombies, Vampires And Global Capitalism by David McNally, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. 3 Articles by: David McNally. David McNally is a professor of political science at York University and the author of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism. David McNally. Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism By David McNally LEIDEN • BOSTON monsters like vampires and zombies move throughout the circuits of cultural exchange largely detached from the system that gives them their life-threatening energies. One purpose of this book is to bring the monsters of the market out of this.
- Mark Worrell, in: Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 29 February "The most vicious of monsters are those with human faces. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism explores Marx's consistent use of folklore and monster as metaphor in his criticism of capitalism. From Frankenstein and the dissection of the market, vampires that feed off the misery of others, among other ideas. David McNally. Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. Chicago: Haymarket, x + pp. $28 pbk. David McNally’s insightful and compelling Monsters of the Market opens with the by-now-familiar observation that we “live in an age of monsters” (1), exemplified in particular by the seeming ubiquity of zombies. Monsters of the Market. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, this book links tales of monstrosity from England to recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx’s persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism.
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