...Max Haiven This essay seeks to contribute to the theoretical groundwork for a cultural studies of finance by recasting a Marxist theory of value toward an analysis of the politics of the imagination under financialized capitalism. My argument is as follows. (1) Social cooperation, creativity...

... John Brenkman, Anders Stephanson, Sohnya Sayres, and Bruce Robbins discuss the changing role of journals. In light of the Internet, changing reading practices, and financing, doing a journal is an uphill struggle. However, magazines do sustain a kind of culture and chains of connection. © 2009...

...Stefano Harney Michael Brown's article “Ideology and the Metaphysics of Content” ( ST 8, 1983) reminds us of what was at stake in the transition from ideology critique to cultural studies. Through an ethnomethodological close reading of the opening part of Marx's Capital , Brown teaches us...

... Press 2018 finance cultures of finance derivatives risk In The Long Twentieth Century , Giovanni Arrighi argues that capitalism expands and contracts in cycles, moving from commodity production to finance before relocating to another power center. 1 For some, the shift from manufacture...

... ; Martin, Empire of Indifference . See also Jameson, Postmodernism ; Jameson, “Culture and Finance Capital” ; and Meister, “Marx on Finance.” 3 Marx, “Fragment on Machines.” This language has been further developed by the autonomist strand of Italian Marxism. See Tomba and Bellofiore...

..., e.g., Mayer, “Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon” ; and Pogue, “Inside the New Right.” 27. Bonefeld, “Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism.” 26. Bernards, Critical History of Poverty Finance ; Roy, Poverty Capital . 25. See Haiven, Cultures of Financialization...

.... Yet the emphasis on risk belies a history of commingling the management of populations at home and abroad along a model of war. Before there was a war on terror, domestic wars were declared on drugs, crime, youth, and culture. These policy initiatives shared the per- spective...

... Proprietor to Risk-Bearer in New Log- ics of Finance,” Public Culture 11 (1999): 365 – 85. I am punning on Bill Maurer’s argument. In his subtly argued article, Maurer proposes that from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, citizen/subjects move from property owner, to share- holder with a bundle...

... tales of societies of risk, uncertainty, and nonknowledge whose financial interface lies with the evanescence of the derivative. Derivatives are typically described as a technical feature of finance which is in turn but an accessory to the real economy. Disaster ensued when derivatives escaped...

..., beings but also remaking finance, claiming “the economic” as a cooperative, communal, trans-ontic endeavor, this time consciously designed with collective, planetary liberation in mind. Truth be told, “Digital Culture” is really “Digital Culture 2.0.” Commodification was the first digital culture...

...Nico Baumbach; Damon R. Young; Genevieve Yue This interview was conducted with Fredric Jameson on 13 March 2014 in New York City and has been lightly edited for clarity. On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of “Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism...

... Finance from Slave Insurance to Philanthrocapital .” Cultural Studies 29 , nos. 5–6 ( 2015 ): 630 – 51 . 10.1080/09502386.2015.1017137 . Kuoni Carin . Foreword to Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork , edited by Rao Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Krishnamurthy Prem Kuoni Carin...

... on the contemporary workings of the metaphor of the university as family, and its more silent double, the university as corporation; in MyRichUncle — a gap education financing program that markets itself through illusions of kinship and meritocracy...

..., middle-brow novels. Cultural production may seem an unlikely site through which to engage speculative finance capital, and the novel may seem an old-fashioned form, more suited to nineteenth-century imaginations than those of the twenty-first. Yet as I argue here, the Model Minority is first and foremost...

... Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization(UNESCO). 1963 . The development of higher education in Africa . Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ____. 1999 . Statistical Yearbook 1999 . Paris: UNESCO Publishing. World Bank. 1991 . The African capacity building initiative: Toward improved...

... by participating in the sale of humans, the freedom of the grumetes was constrained by the system of credit that financed the early trade. The infrastructure of the early slave trade was thus the nexus and conduit between interconnected financial modes, commodified life and debt, that together account...

... given rise to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.” 14 In terms of the US Civil War, he observes that it “has brought in its train a colossal national debt and, with it, a heavy tax-burden, the creation of a finance aristocracy of the vilest type, and the granting of immense tracts...

...- tion to appear under a different guise in the domain of consumption through the institution of home ownership. A consequence of socialized production of domestic space and the industrialization of finance for mass consumption, residence amalgamates private...

... Increasingly in Britain the new myth of “dependency culture” is used to condemn those receiving any form of state service, marking them out as vulnerable to “welfare dependency.” Yet, despite the hassles and indigni- ties they now...

... in the historical present. Against the commensurabilities and rationalities of debt and finance capitalism, conditioned through the proprietary logics of settler colonialism and racial capitalism, the essay gestures toward alternative frameworks for building collective capacities for what the authors describe...