... capitalist class” offer new opportunities in the search for “paying” customers. Financial pressures at home make transnationalization almost irresistibly attractive. These forces have triggered the global expansion of elite universities and the rush of public institutions, in particular, to make themselves...

... of the postindustrial financial economy and the human’s present ways of being atop a series of social and aesthetic categories that are at once privatized, social, and cultural. These categories are timeless pleasure, impulsive subjectivity, and recuperative possibilities. This essay elaborates on these categories...

... a political leadership role in the world? The effort of the United States under President Obama to do so must contend with the Bush legacy, consisting of two unwinnable wars, a deep economic crisis that began as a financial crisis, and a politically and culturally divided nation. Haug's essay does not pretend...

... be equipped to synchronize with other monothematic mantras of modernity like scientific progress, democracy, or techno-financial development. The essay visits some nodal moments of this historical narrative–the coming into being of a Hindu “tradition” under the auspices of colonial Indology, Rammohun Roy’s...

..., as well as an epoch of enormous literary creativity, it is still dealing with the devastations of the 2008 global financial crisis that led to the overnight meltdown of the Celtic Tiger and to what might be called a “decade of austerities.” The collapse of the Celtic Tiger, and the sense of supine...

...Ruth Y.Y. Hung More than ten years on from the 2008 financial crisis, two trends of global statism remain dominant: Beijing-led “exceptional neoliberalism” and the emerging “illiberal democracy” topped by Trumponomics, with racist populism looming at the back of both. Even though these persistent...

... that cut across literary studies, intellectual history, social theory, political theory, film studies, social movements, and feminism, among other fields. The issue serves simultaneously as a primer on and a contribution to our understanding of how the 2008 global financial crisis has impacted social...

...Paul A. Bové Abstract Literary disciplines’ loss of integrity began at the end of the Cold War and accelerated after the financial crisis of 2008–09 because of internal changes responding to external desires along with direct pressures from money and power. Academics follow the desires of moneyed...

... of Hortense Spillers and her interlocutors, the essay concludes that “bastard sugar” showcases the paradoxes of value in financial markets, and as such is the condition of New World thought. 9. Of Spillers's account of the “Middle Passage” in “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe,” Alys Weinbaum ( 2023 : 49) argues...

... of ursprüngliche Akkumulation , precisely to the extent that it subjects individuals in a manner that forecloses the possibility of an alternative economic order. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 accumulation translation Marxism debt financialization Part 1: The Language of Capital...

... in a Transnational World . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Tabb William K. 2010 . “ Financialization in the Contemporary Social Structure of Accumulation .” In Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century , edited by McDonough...

... University, was founded in 1908 by private initiative, but, because of continuing financial difficulties, the Egyptian state took over its man- agement. Since that time, not only in Egypt but also throughout the Arab world...

... begin, Žižek cautioned, with “the battle for what this victory will effec- tively mean, especially within the context of two other much more ominous signs of history: 9/11 and the financial meltdown.”1 Although it has taken place within the terrain Žižek specified—9/11 and the global...

... financial as well as environmental. Those financial and environmental concerns were intensified by Fukushima (if not fully transformed), and Panasonic has woven the meanings of those 2011 events into the reasons for its new eco-­city. Fujisawa Smart Town thus is part of a larger lifeworld...

... are thus disciplined by the mar- ket principle. However, no one is left homeless. Families who are unable to pay their rents live with long-term​​ rent arrears and are further assisted by a combination of state financial assistance and voluntary welfare organiza- tions. The sacrosanct liberal value...

... specialists and faculty in agricultural schools of the need for theo- retical understanding of the principles of biological life was crucial in devel- oping the massive financial support for primary research that has produced some...

... . Cappelli Peter . 2015 . Will College Pay Off: A Guide to the Most Important Financial Decision You’ll Ever Make . New York : Public Affairs . Carns Ann . 2012 . “ Medical Costs Contribute to Credit Card Debt .” New York Times , May 22 , 2012 . https://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05...

.... 2. The cottage is in Northern Ireland, complicating analysis of the economic crash in the Republic of Ireland. Nevertheless, Antoin Murphy notes, “Northern Ireland has suf- fered many of the consequences of the Republic’s financial crisis most notably in banking because of the problems...

... economic crisis induced by the Wall Street financial tsunami caused global inflation, as the financial- capital- dominant countries used their political hegemony to further expand credit. Contemporary imperialism’s financial credit is no longer determined by the market. There is no possibility...

... found in other government organizations, within which employ- ees were “state cadres” with numbered ranks. Like other administrative units, media units were nonprofit institutions, financially dependent on sub- sidies from the government, and were not required to achieve economic goals...