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Finance Fictions : Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis / / Arne De Boever



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Autore: De Boever Arne Visualizza persona
Titolo: Finance Fictions : Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis / / Arne De Boever Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 813.009/3553
813.0093553
Soggetto topico: Money in literature
Finance in literature
Financial crises in literature
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Soggetto non controllato: Biopolitics
Finance Novels
Finance
Marxism
Neoliberalism
Popular fiction
Psychosis
Realism
Speculative Realism
Wall Street
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities -- 2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho -- 3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index -- 4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux) -- 5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist -- 6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political crisis, and austerity? Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel that can make sense of complex financial instruments like collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists to work harder to “tame the billion-footed beast of reality,” today’s economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew Timmons’ Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy—an “if” whose implications turn out to be deeply political. Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and critical work on finance in the twenty-first century.
Titolo autorizzato: Finance Fictions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-8143-4
0-8232-7919-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814157703321
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