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Global Libidinal Economy by Ilan Kapoor, Gavin Fridell, Maureen Kim Lian Sioh, Pieter de Vries is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Global Libidinal Economy about?

This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidinal—the site of unconscious desire—plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive role in global political economy. Consumption, for example, is not simply a way of satisfying a material or biological need but a doomed attempt at soothing our deeply held sense of loss; and capital is not just a means to material growth and prosperity but is invested with "drive" that seduces, beguiles, and manipulates in the service of unending accumulation. Thus, in contrast to political economy, which assumes a rational subject, libidinal economy is founded on the notion of a desiring subject, who obeys a logic not of good sense or self-interest but profligacy and irrationality. By applying a psychoanalytic lens, Global Libidinal Economy thereby seeks to uncover the unconscious excesses and antagonisms emergent in such key political economy categories as "production," "trade," and "ecology," while also bringing out significant contemporary themes relating to "gender" and "race."

Who reads Global Libidinal Economy?

Author

Ilan Kapoor, Gavin Fridell, Maureen Kim Lian Sioh, Pieter de Vries

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438493398

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, History, Business