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Spectacular Speculation : Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse by Urs Stäheli is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Spectacular Speculation : Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse about?
<i>Spectacular Speculation</i> is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous importance in popular culture. Informed by the work of Luhmann, Foucault, Simmel and Deleuze, it looks at how speculation was translated into popular knowledge and charts the discursive struggles of making speculation a legitimate economic practice. Noting that the vocabulary available to discuss the concept was not properly economic,
Who reads Spectacular Speculation : Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Urs Stäheli
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780804788250
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Finance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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