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Clickbait Capitalism: Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526191557)
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xThe 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.Author: Amin Samman
ISBN-10: 1526191555
ISBN-13: 9781526191557
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/03/2025
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d
By Amin Samman
xAmin 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 SussexRecently Viewed Products
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