The presence of an absence: Framing capital in Mercado de futuros/Futures Market (Álvarez 2011), La mano invisible/The Invisible Hand (Macián 2016) and Cerca de tu casa/Near your Home (Cortés 2016)
Mari Paz Balibrea
Abstract:The extensive bibliography devoted to Spanish austerity tends to centre on representations of a suffering population, Spanish politics or the legacy of the Transition to democracy. Invoking Fredric Jameson’s concept of cognitive mapping, this article argues that Mercado de futuros/Futures Market (Álvarez 2011), La mano invisible/The Invisible Hand (Macián 2016) and Cerca de tu casa/Near Your Home (Cortés 2016) expose capitalism’s responsibility for creating the crisis and propose alternative critical responses… Show more
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