Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global CapitalismMonsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marx’s persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, Monsters of the Market offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of a global market-system. The book thus makes original contributions to political economy, cultural theory, commodification-studies and ‘body-theory’. |
Contents
Introduction
| 1 |
Frankenstein
Political Anatomy and the Rise of Ca pitalism | 17 |
VampireCapital and the
NightmareWorld of Late Capitalism | 113 |
Chapter Three African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation | 175 |
Monstrous Dreams of Utopia | 253 |
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abstract accumulation African anatomists Azaro become Ben Okri blood body-parts bourgeois capital’s capitalist Chapter circuits colonial commodification commodities Coriolanus corporeal corpses Creature critical crucial culture dead death depicts dialectic Dickens discourse dissection early-modern economy emerged enclosure English Enron European exchange exploitation Famished Road fetishism fictitious capital folklore forces Frankenstein genre Geschière global capitalism globalisation Godwin grotesque Hegel horror human idioms images invisible involved labour labour-power labouring bodies land late capitalism Linebaugh living labour Luddite Madame Koto magic Marx Marx’s Mary Shelley material McNally means modern monsters monstrous natural neoliberal Nigeria novel observes occult Okri organised Percy Shelley plebeian poor popular processes production public anatomy radical rebellion relations rich riots ruling class Shelley’s social society spirits stories Sub-Saharan Africa surplus-value things tion transformation Tulp urban use-value vampires Victor Frankenstein wage-labour wealth William Shakespeare witchcraft witches women workers zombie-labourers zombies