Timothy De Waal Malefyt: Magical Capitalism

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This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies. From contract law to science, by way of finance, business, marketing, advertising, cultural production, and the political economy in general, each chapter argues that the kind of magic studied by anthropologists in less developed societies ¿ shamanism, sorcery, enchantment, the occult ¿ is not only alive and well, but flourishing in the midst of so-called ¿modernity¿. Modern day magicians range from fashion designers and architects to Donald Trump and George Soros. Magical rites take place in the form of political summits, the transformation of products into brands through advertising campaigns, and the biannual fashion collections shown in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Magical language, in the form of magical spells, is used by everyone, from media to marketers and all others devoted to the art of ¿spin¿.

Whilemagic may appear to be opposed to systems of rational economic thought, Moeran and Malefyt highlight the ways it may in fact be an accomplice to it.

Über den Autor

Brian Moeran is an anthropologist who specialises in cultural production and Japan. He has, in his time, been a helicopter pilot in Her Britannic Majesty's Royal Navy, a television comedian in Japan, and the first social scientist appointed to a Chair Professorship in language and literature at a UK university.

Timothy de Waal Malefyt is Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing at Gabelli Business School, Fordham University, USA. He is a corporate anthropologist who worked for 15 years in advertising agencies, including BBDO and D'Arcy. He blends consumer insights with anthropological theories, and is a former ballet dancer at the Joffrey.

Zusammenfassung

Explores the creation and use of magical practices, chants and rituals in different spheres of the political economy

Examines how the economy, politics, law, markets, business and cultural production are performed magically through media

Applies well-founded anthropological topics like animism, shamanism and technologies of enchantment to assess social phenomena such as central banking, contract law and marketing

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Magical Capitalism: An Introduction.- 2. Magical Contracts, Numinous Capitalism.- 3. Exorcising Leverage: Sleight of Hand and the Invisible Hand in Islamic Finance.- 4. Trickster's Triumph: Donald Trump and the New Spirit of Capitalism.- 5. Fetish, Magic, Marketing.- 6 Magical Names: Glamour, Enchantment, and Illusion in Women's Fashion Magazines.- 7. The Magic of Paradox: How Advertising Ideas Transform Art into Business and the Ordinary into the Extraordinary.- 8. The Business of Inspiration: A Magical Technology of Prefiguration.- 9. The Magic Trick of Creative Capital: Competition, Confidence, and Collective Enchantment Among "Starchitects".- 10. Anthropology as Science Fiction, or How Print Capitalism Enchanted Victorian Science.- 11. The Magic of Mass Publicity: Reading Ioan Coulia.- 12 Occult Economies, Revisited.- 13. The Enchantment Effect: A Semiotics of Boundary and Profit.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige
Genre:	Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xviii 349 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030089801
ISBN-10:	3030089800
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	De Waal Malefyt, Timothy Moeran, Brian
Herausgeber:	Brian Moeran/Timothy de Waal Malefyt
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Timothy De Waal Malefyt (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.12.2018
Gewicht:	0,476 kg