The monster, capital : new horror for our times
2023
Books
There is something monstrous about capital, something alive and creeping about it. It's been compared to a parasite, a vampire, a zombie-maker; one that transforms human lives into dead labour, and marshals all creative, free-thinking individuality into the long trudge that is work, money-making, aspiration. The philosopher Mark Fisher famously compared capital to the alien in John Carpenter's The Thing: an 'infinitely plastic entity capable of metabolising and absorbing anything with which it comes into contact'. For the latest book in its acclaimed horror series, Comma has invited ten authors to explore this emergent, monstrous property of capital through supernatural and surreal means.
Main title:
The monster, capital : new horror for our times / edited by Ra Page.
Author:
Page, Ra, 1972-, editor
Imprint:
Manchester : Comma Press, 2023.
Collation:
1 volume
ISBN:
9781910974469 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.08738HOR
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2610460