Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Punctuating Finance Capital: A Comedy of Manners -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Incidents in the Life and Language of Debt -- 2 Fictions of Fictitious Capital -- 3 Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park, and the Exquisite Corpse of Deficit Finance -- 4 No End to the Work? -- 5 Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite -- 6 The Bodies in the Bubble -- Afterword What's in a Word? -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Addressing the emergence and decline of US Fordism, this volume examines how an economy determines the language of those who live among its imperatives. It studies how the complexities of words and their histories derive from, and register, the organizing contradictions of an industrial economy, and of its failure
Notes
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index
