Dead pledges : debt, crisis, and twenty-first-century culture /
McClanahan, Annie,
Dead pledges : debt, crisis, and twenty-first-century culture / Debt, crisis, and twenty-first-century culture Debt, crisis, and 21st century culture Annie McClanahan. - 1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations - Post 45 . - Post 45. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Dead Pledges -- 1. Behavioral Economics and the Credit-Crisis Novel -- 2. Credit, Characterization, Personification -- 3. Photography and Foreclosure -- 4. Houses of Horror.
Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture--from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies--has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, Dead Pledges dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source of economic credibility, it contends, but is a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life.
9781503600690 (electronic bk.) 1503600696 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctvqrmcs9 JSTOR
Debt--Social aspects.
Culture--Economic aspects.
Financial crises--Social aspects.
Dettes--Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Culture--Economic aspects.
Debt--Social aspects.
Financial crises--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
HG3701 / .M33 2017eb
306.3
Dead pledges : debt, crisis, and twenty-first-century culture / Debt, crisis, and twenty-first-century culture Debt, crisis, and 21st century culture Annie McClanahan. - 1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations - Post 45 . - Post 45. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Dead Pledges -- 1. Behavioral Economics and the Credit-Crisis Novel -- 2. Credit, Characterization, Personification -- 3. Photography and Foreclosure -- 4. Houses of Horror.
Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture--from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies--has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, Dead Pledges dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source of economic credibility, it contends, but is a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life.
9781503600690 (electronic bk.) 1503600696 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctvqrmcs9 JSTOR
Debt--Social aspects.
Culture--Economic aspects.
Financial crises--Social aspects.
Dettes--Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Culture--Economic aspects.
Debt--Social aspects.
Financial crises--Social aspects.
Electronic books.
HG3701 / .M33 2017eb
306.3