Index
Adamson, Morgan, 187, 192–93, 220n69 Adorno, Theodor, 89–90, 125–26, 141 affect: collective, 36, 195; consumer, 26–28; and debt, 57–58, 76–77, 80–81, 83–86, 95, 195–96; and credit relations, 79; and irrational exuberance, 172; relationship to the home, 149; and realism, 206n39 Agee, James, 114, 116 Ai, Weiwei, 135–36 Akerlof, George, 22, 26 Al-Shawaf, Rayyan, 69 American Insurance Group (AIG), 21–22 Amityville Horror, The, 149–50, 160 Ariely, Dan, 26 Aristotle, 34, 52 Arrighi, Giovanni, 13–14 Azoulay, Ariella, 104 Bailey, Amanda, 176 Baker, Jennifer, 4 Balakrishnan, Gopal, 13–14, 131–32, 140, 203n53 Bank of America, 72 Batchen, Geoffrey, 104 Baucom, Ian, 3–4, 211n50 behavioral economics, 16, 22–24, 25–30, 31–33, 36, 38, 40–41, 46, 47–48, 50–51, 53–54, 55, 206n38, 206–07n39; psychological foundations of, 28–29, 205n20 Benjamin, Walter, 93, 105, 141–42 Berlant, Lauren, 55, 194–95, 229–30n28 Bernanke, Ben, 146, 162–63 Bernes, Jasper, 186–87, 215n93 Bishop, Claire, 86 Blackstone (hedge fund), 147–48 Bourke-White, Margaret, 112–13 Brenner, Robert, 131 Brown, Michael Christopher, 137–40 Brown, Wendy, 52 Bryan, Dick, 167 Bush, George W., 153–54
capital: accumulation, 12–15, 131, 179, 187; circulation of, 46, 163, 169, 186; creation/ destruction, 42; finance, 29, 52, 143, 187, 190; global, 51–52, 141, 148; human, 52, 192–93; and labor, 150,186; speculative, 137, 173–74 capitalism, 2–4, 10–12, 13–16, 42, 127, 136; crisis of 13–14, 17–18, 103, 132, 135, 140, 142, 187; late, 47, 71, 74, 105, 142; and subjectivity, 54, 95 caricature, 58, 68, 69–71; and the zany, 74–76, 211n53 Carruthers, Bruce, 162 Carson, Ann, 123 Cassidy, John, 27 Cato Institute, 154–57, 183 caveat emptor, doctrine of, 18, 152, 160–61 Cayne, Jimmy, 22 character/characterization: and credit, 58, 60; moral, 2, 18, 23, 40; novelistic, 2, 4, 16–17, 58–61, 66–67, 69, 75–77; psychology of, 30, 51; racialization of, 67–68; rich, 33, 54; and type, 58, 60–61, 67–68, 76 China, ghost cities of, 102, 135–42 City Life/Vida Urbana, 187–88 Clover, Carol, 153, 177, 179–80 Clover, Joshua, 191 Cohen, Paula, 155 collateralized debt obligation (CDO), 49, 221–22n12 collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO), 146, 221–22n12 consumer: debt, 4, 7–8, 10, 54, 79, 112, 120, 136–37, 187–89, 194; demand, 41, 54, 62; desire, 25, 38–39; irresponsibility of, 23, 38 consumption, 1, 5, 10, 25, 37–38, 46, 62, 112, 115–16, 154 Cooper, Melinda, 78, 84, 125, 129 Corinthian Colleges, 192 Countrywide Mortgage, 22, 72 Crawlspace (dir. Josh Stolberg, 2013), 143–44, 151, 152–53, 155, 157–61, 182–83
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