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Clickbait Capitalism : Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century
by Amin Samman and Earl Gammon
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Overview
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.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781526191557
- ISBN-10: 1526191555
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publish Date: June 2025
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.53 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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