In the future, toward death: Finance capitalism and security in Don DeLillo's ‘Cosmopolis’

This article develops a reading of Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis that differentiates between two thematic and poetological axes running through the text. On the one hand, Cosmopolis explores the future-fixation of the risk regime of finance capitalism; on the other, it stages scenes of insecur...

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Main Author: Johannes Voelz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2018-01-01
Series:Finance and Society
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059599900000595/type/journal_article