Moments of Capital av Eli Jelly-Schapiro

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<p>Undertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature, <i>Moments of Capital</i> sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present. Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three synchronous moments: primitive accumulation, expanded reproduction, and the "synthetic dispossession" facilitated by financialization and privatization. These moments correspond to distinct economic and political forms, and distinct strands of theory and fiction.</p><p><i>Moments of Capital</i> integrates various intellectual traditions¿from multiple trajectories of Marxist thought, to Weberian inquiries into the "spirit" of capitalism, to anticolonial accounts of racial depredation¿to reveal the concurrent interrelation of the three moments of capital. The book''s literary readings, meanwhile, make vivid the uneven texture and experience of capitalist modernity at large. Analyzing formally and thematically diverse novels¿works by F