Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Dissecting the Labouring Body: Frankenstein, Political Anatomy
and the Rise of Capitalism
‘Save my body from the surgeons’
The culture of dissection: anatomy, colonisation and social
order
Political anatomy, wage-labour and destruction of the English
commons
Anatomy and the corpse-economy
Monsters of rebellion
Jacobins, Irishmen and Luddites: rebel-monsters in the age of
Frankenstein
The rights of monsters: horror and the split society
2. Marx’s Monsters: Vampire-Capital and the Nightmare-World of Late
Capitalism
Dialectics and the doubled life of the commodity
The spectre of value and the fetishism of commodities
‘As if by love possessed’: vampire capital and the labouring
body
Zombie-labour and the ‘monstrous outrages’ of capital
Money: capitalism’s second nature
‘Self-birthing’ capital and the alchemy of money
Wild money: the occult economies of late-capitalist
globalisation
Enron: case-study in the occult economy of late capitalism
‘Capital comes into the world dripping in blood from every
pore’
3. African Vampires in the Age of Globalisation
Kinship and accumulation: from the old witchcraft to the new
Zombies, vampires, and spectres of capital: the new occult
economies of globalising capitalism
African fetishes and the fetishism of commodities
The living dead: zombie-labourers in the age of globalisation
Vampire-capitalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bewitched accumulation, famished roads, and the endless toilers of
the Earth
Conclusion: Ugly Beauty: Monstrous Dreams of Utopia
References
Index
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David McNally Ph.D (1983) is Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto. He is the author of five previous books and has published widely on political economy, Marxism, and contemporary social justice movements
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worth reading: it demonstrates that the marginalizedthose who
inevitably become the misshapenhave a long history across
different cultures of articulating narratives of resistance to the
various modes of night thrown up by a pitiless global system."
Thomas Ponniah, rabble.ca
“This outstanding new work from David McNally is indispensable for
serious monster fans and radicals both – and almost giddyingly so
for those of us who are both.”
—China Miéville, author of Embassytown
"McNally delivers a tour de force analysis of global capital from
the upper registers of derivatives trading down to popular fables
of African monsters … Monsters of the Market is one of the best
books I’ve read in years and it will definitely stimulate thinking
about the nature of globalization, the labor theory of value and
the relationship between commodities and speculative objects,
collective fantasy, and other nebulous problems confronting
historical materialism in the future."
—Mark Worrell, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
"The most vicious of monsters are those with human faces. Monsters
of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism explores
Marx's consistent use of folklore and monster as metaphor in his
criticism of capitalism. From Frankenstein and the dissection of
the market, vampires that feed off the misery of others, among
other ideas ... Monsters of the Market is an intriguing way of
explorig economics, very much recommended reading."
—Midwest Book Review
"David McNally ... has written an excellent book. [He] approaches
the topic from a more comprehensive framework. Unlike other works
of "monsterology," he links the production of meaning with the
economic mode of production while also researching its
manifestations across the world ... Monsters of the Market is well
worth reading: it demonstrates that the marginalized—those who
inevitably become the misshapen—have a long history across
different cultures of articulating narratives of resistance to the
various modes of night thrown up by a pitiless global system."
—Thomas Ponniah, rabble.ca
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