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Capitalism's New Clothes
Colin Cremin
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Description for Capitalism's New Clothes
Paperback. Explains why the more capitalism is revealed to be damaging and regressive, the more it gains acceptance in everyday life and popular culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 250.
From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which we are tied in to capitalism – through a social imperative for enterprise and competition; through enjoyment and consumption; and through the depoliticisation of ethical debate by government and business.
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which we are tied in to capitalism – through a social imperative for enterprise and competition; through enjoyment and consumption; and through the depoliticisation of ethical debate by government and business.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745328140
SKU
V9780745328140
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About Colin Cremin
Ciara Cremin is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Auckland. She is author of several books, including Man-Made Woman, Totalled and Capitalism's New Clothes.
Reviews for Capitalism's New Clothes
'With a ruthless elegance, Colin Cremin exposes the vacuousness of 'creative' capitalism's pretensions to newness'
Mark Fisher, Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London, and author of Capitalist Realism (2010) 'Slicing through the evasions and double think of contemporary accounts of pleasure, Colin Cremin has produced a must-read text on the sociology of enjoyment. Accessible, penetrating, unmissable'
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Mark Fisher, Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University Of London, and author of Capitalist Realism (2010) 'Slicing through the evasions and double think of contemporary accounts of pleasure, Colin Cremin has produced a must-read text on the sociology of enjoyment. Accessible, penetrating, unmissable'
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