Derivative Images
Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2022
200 pages
978-1-4744-8647-7 (ISBN)
Description
A theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis.
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Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The 2008 Financial Crisis, Film and Literature
- 1. Lordon and the 2008 Crisis
- D'un retournement l'autre
- 'Une image bien choisie qui fait bouillir les sangs': Images and Affects
- Lordon, Images and Committed Art
- The Anarchic Condition
- 2. The Saints of the Crisis: Larnaudie and Stiegler in the Oversight Committee Room
- Les Effondres and the Collapse of Market Ideology
- Greenspan before Congress
- Proletarisation and Transvaluation
- 3. The Derivative in Film and Literary Theory
- Derivatives and Nonknowledge
- Derivative Images
- Is the Psyche a Market?
- Derivative Creativity
- Conclusion
- 4. Trading in Images: The Case of Kerviel
- Screens within Screens
- Kerviel at Societe Generale
- Trading as metier, the Trader as Functionary
- Suicide and Societe Generale
- 5. Derivative Films
- Effacing the Visual Currency: The Fountainhead
- 'L'argent est un bien public': Film Socialisme
- 'The images are there for the taking': Film Catastrophe
- 6. Dreaming Futures
- Argent and Value
- 'Fin de regne': Rever sous le capitalisme
- 'Ca imprime, ca imprime': L'Epoque, Escaparates
- Conclusion: Ambivalences of the Derivative
- Select Bibliography
- Select Filmography
- Index
