Clickbait Capitalism

Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2023
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6816-0 (ISBN)

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Clickbait capitalism engages the contemporary digital economy as a site of psychological capture and release. Drawing on psychoanalysis and political economy, the book provides vital new insights into the politics of desire associated with social media, dating apps, cryptocurrencies, and meme stocks. -- .

The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the idea that the entire contemporary economy is just such a ruse; an elaborate exercise in psychological capture and release.

Pushing beyond rationalist accounts of economic life, this volume puts psychoanalysis and political economy into conversation with the cutting edges of capitalist development. Perennial questions of death, sex, aggression, enjoyment, despair, hope, and revenge are followed onto the terrain of the contemporary, with chapters devoted to social media, online dating apps, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and meme stocks. The result is a unique and compelling portrait of the latest institutions to stage, channel, or reconfigure the psychic energies of political and economic life. -- .

Amin Samman is Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at City, University of London Earl Gammon is Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex -- .

Preface
Introduction: The desire called libidinal economy – Amin Samman
1 Narcissism, rage, avocado toast – Earl Gammon
2 Capital as death denial – Sandy Brian Hager
3 The eroticism of technology and finance – Noam Yuran
4 Digital paranoia in a post-truth world – Jernej Markelj
5 Social networks and serendipitous desire – Emily Rosamond
6 Desiring-infrastructures in the crypto economy – Ludovico Rella
7 Normative unconscious processes and US racial capitalism – Lynne Layton
8 Enjoying inequality – Japhy Wilson
9 Despair and hope among young Korean investors – Cheolung Choi
10 Financialising the eschaton – Amin Samman and Stefano Sgambati
11 Anxiety and self-sabotage in the neoliberal university – Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Max Haiven
Conclusion: Click here to end capitalism – Amin Samman

Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2023
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	443 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-5261-6816-2 / 1526168162
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-6816-0 / 9781526168160
Zustand	Neuware