The Production of Indebted Subjects: Capitalism and Melancholia.
In the essay 'Postscript on the Societies of Control', Deleuze discusses the differences between nineteenth-century capitalism and contemporary capitalism, characterising the former as the spaces of enclosure and the latter as the open circuits of the bank. In contemporary capitalism, '[m]an is no l...
| Publicado en: | Deleuze Studies Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 336 - 352 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Aug2016
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