Ghost in the Market. Hauntological and Eerie Finance in Cosmopolis
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the intersections between the Gothic imaginary and Marxist theory using the speculative tools of hauntology and eerie as defined by Mark Fisher. Specifically, we will investigate how the financialization and digitalization of capital have initiated a process of spectralization of the market. The second part of the paper will be a close reading of Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003), a novel that stages the ghostly movements of high finance by telling of phantom fluctuations in the stock market, people poised between materiality and immateriality, revivals of Gothic architecture, and defective temporalities.
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