By David McNally
Larry Patriquin (ed.)
Monsters of the marketplace investigates the increase of capitalism in the course of the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and pop culture, the ebook hyperlinks stories of monstrosity from early-modern England, together with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to a spate of modern vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects those to Marx’s continual use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. studying throughout those stories of the ugly, Monsters of the industry deals a singular account of the cultural and corporeal economic system of a world market-system. The publication therefore makes unique contributions to political financial system, cultural idea, commodification-studies and ‘body-theory’.
Winner of the 2012 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
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Monsters of the industry is key examining for anyone operating within the box of serious social thought, serious sociology, political economic system, etc., and compatible for a variety of idea and tradition classes on the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Mark Worrell, Marx and Philosophy evaluation of Books, 29 February 2012
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105. 15. Moore 1997, pp. 224–5. Ruth Richardson’s important work attempts to summarise popular attitudes toward death and the corpse, yet much of the evidence rests on an assessment of ‘a popular theology’ prevalent in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (Richardson 1987, p. 7; see also p. 90), when, as I argue below, such beliefs were almost certainly undergoing important transformations. 16. Linebaugh 1975, pp. 103–4. Dissecting the Labouring Body • 23 against the surgeons would seem to register much newer sensibilities about the commodification of human life.
The result was a declining commercial empire that persistently lost ground to its fully capitalist rival, England. Unable to dominate markets through economies of production, rather than through commercial protectionism, the Dutch bourgeoisie became an increasingly rentier-class, living off profits on speculative 44. Wilson 1968, p. 31. 45. Schama 1987, p. 341. Indeed, Eric Hobsbawm (1965, p. 42) goes so far as to call the Netherlands of this time a ‘feudal business’ economy. Ellen Meiksins Wood (2003, pp.
The public anatomy played 25. Landes 2004, p. 167. 26. Harley 1994, p. 4, and Ferrari 1987, p. 55. It is important to note that temporary anatomy-theatres had existed in Italy and Germany since the twelfth century. But their integration with universities comes later, and the first permanent anatomy-theatres not until the late sixteenth century – 1594 in Padua and 1597 in Leiden. On the early history, see Brockbank 1968, pp. 371–84. 27 ‘Aesthetics is born as a discourse of the body’, Terry Eagleton has reminded us28 – and this is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the ceremony of public anatomy.