David McNally (1) (1953–)
Auteur van Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism
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David McNally is the Cullen Distinguished Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston and director of the Center for the Study of Capitalism. McNally is the author of seven books including Global Slump.
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- McNally, David J.
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- York University (PhD | 1983 | Social and Political Thought)
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- scholar of the history and political economy of capitalism
university professor - Organisaties
- University of Houston
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the book acts also as a kind of whirlwind tour of 3 periods of capitalism - "primitive accumulation" in europe, development of industrial capitalism, neocolonialism in africa (probably most notably original colonialism is missing from this - seems the monstrous being connected with race would be a meaningful study but i dunno). i liked the history stuff a lot it was good even when the symbolic analysis was a bit tenuous (eg the connection between paintings of corpse anatomy and ruling class understandings of their own power seemed v benefit of hindsight)
the history stuff is good to read but the cultural analysis type stuff can be really tough to get through because of the language. sometimes i had trouble making it through because the actual descriptions of the horrors of capitalism felt too raw while the development of the themes of monsters sometimes felt too remote from the realities of capitalism. which is unfair on the latter because he closely ties the symbolism to the horrors but the language used can be bleh. it's a good book and if the subject sounds interesting then i recommend it
there's a LOT of analysis and interesting stuff to pore over in this book but i'm not in a good place to summarise but if the concept's interesting and you're prepared to tackle some tough language sometimes then it's good… (meer)