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008			151130s2006 nyu 001 | eng
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040			_aMIUC _beng _cMIUC
082	0		_a330.12
100	1		_91991 _aGraham, Phil, _d1961-
245	1	0	_aHypercapitalism : _bnew media, language, and social perceptions of value / _cPhil Graham.
260			_aNew York : _bPeter Lang, _cc2006.
300			_axvi, 202 p. ; _c23 cm.
490	0		_aDigital formations, _x1526-3169 ; _vvol. 15
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPreface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Value in history -- 3. Social life -- 4. Hypercapitalism -- 5. Time, space and new media -- 6. Marking value with policy -- 7. Utopian frontiers of the digital age -- 8. Eat my head -- 9. Not the end -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aEvery day trillions of dollars circulate the globe in a digital data space and new forms of property and ownership emerge. Massive corporate entities with a global reach are formed and disappear with breathtaking speed, making and breaking personal fortunes the size of which defy imagination. Fictitious commodities abound. The genomes of entire nations have become corporately owned. Relationships have become the overt basis of economic wealth and political power. Hypercapitalism explores the problems of understanding this emergent form of global political economic organization by focusing on the internal relations between language, new media networks, and social perceptions of value. Taking an historical approach informed by Marx, Phil Graham draws upon writings in political economy, media studies, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and critical social science to understand the development, roots, and trajectory of the global system in which every possible aspect of human existence, including imagined futures, has become a commodity form.
650		0	_9224 _aCapitalism
650		0	_91993 _aValue
650		0	_91994 _aMarxian economics
830		0	_91992 _aDigital formations _v15
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