The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good
Richard Dienst
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The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst considers the financial crisis, global poverty, media politics and radical theory to parse the various implications of a world where man is born free but everywhere is in debt.
Written with humor and verve, Bonds of Debt ranges across subjects-such as Obama's national security strategy, the architecture of Prada stores, press photos of Bono, and ... Read more
The credit crisis has pushed the whole world so far into the red that the gigantic sums involved defy understanding. On a human level, what does such an enormous degree of debt and insolvency mean? In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst considers the financial crisis, global poverty, media politics and radical theory to parse the various implications of a world where man is born free but everywhere is in debt.
Written with humor and verve, Bonds of Debt ranges across subjects-such as Obama's national security strategy, the architecture of Prada stores, press photos of Bono, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784786533
SKU
V9781784786533
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99-1
About Richard Dienst
Richard Dienst is the author of Still Life in Real Time: Theory after Television and a co-editor of Reading the Shape of the World. He teaches in the Department of English at Rutgers University.
Reviews for The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good
· "[An] astute portrait of the recession ... on one rich canvas."
National
· "[A] smart and easily understood book ... Dienst has a new and thrilling idea ... debt is exactly what bonds us and makes our kind of sociality possible."
Charles Mudede
Stranger
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National
· "[A] smart and easily understood book ... Dienst has a new and thrilling idea ... debt is exactly what bonds us and makes our kind of sociality possible."
Charles Mudede
Stranger
... Read more