Finance Fictions – Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis
Autor Arne De Boeveren Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2018
Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel that can make sense of complex financial instruments like collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists to work harder to "tame the billion-footed beast of reality," today's economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew Timmons' Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy--an "if" whose implications turn out to be deeply political. Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and critical work on finance in the twenty-first century.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780823279173
ISBN-10: 0823279170
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 187 x 227 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press
ISBN-10: 0823279170
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 187 x 227 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press
Cuprins
Introduction
1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities
2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho
3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index
4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux)
5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist
6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner¿s 10:04
Conclusion: Economic Defense Systems; Or: On Financial Immunity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Descriere
Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.