The cultural life of money / edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil and Helena Gonçalves da Silva.
"The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has been consistently challenged. To understand the current state of affairs...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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| Series: | Culture & conflict ;
Bd. 6. |
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | "The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has been consistently challenged. To understand the current state of affairs, it has become increasingly necessary to understand the conjuncture that rules the production of value in economic systems, how money shapes social relations and affects discursive practices. By discussing the vocabulary, by understanding the rhetoric and interpreting the narratives, be it of crisis, austerity, growth, welfare, neo-liberalism or socialism, new modes of imaging the economic system may be made possible. The book is structured in four chapters dealing with theory and conjuncture, with the visual arts and investment, with literary representation and narrativity and with the cognitive impact of fiduciary representation. This collection analyses the process whereby a material icon invested with the symbolical power to rule social exchange becomes an explanatory narrative determining the way societies produce meaning."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 227 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110420890 3110420899 |