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'Paradise falls: a land lost in time': representing credit, debt and work after the crisis

'Paradise falls: a land lost in time': representing credit, debt and work after the crisis
'Paradise falls: a land lost in time': representing credit, debt and work after the crisis
This article examines the ways in which credit and debt have been explored since the 2008 financial crisis: suggesting a formal analogue in which an abstracted financial capital (credit) has been constructed against its concrete productive counterpart (debt). The first half of the paper traces this contrast through the theoretical vocabularies for credit and debt that have emerged since the crisis. The second half explores how this dyad is represented in popular culture, Andrew Niccol's 2011 In Time and Rian Johnson's Looper.It argues that they offer an alternative model of social debt, one that uses the connection between time and work to actively critique the movement from productive to financial capital.
0950-236X
1181-1198
Marsh, Nicky
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Marsh, Nicky
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Marsh, Nicky (2014) 'Paradise falls: a land lost in time': representing credit, debt and work after the crisis. [in special issue: How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now] Textual Practice, 28 (7), 1181-1198. (doi:10.1080/0950236X.2014.965466).

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This article examines the ways in which credit and debt have been explored since the 2008 financial crisis: suggesting a formal analogue in which an abstracted financial capital (credit) has been constructed against its concrete productive counterpart (debt). The first half of the paper traces this contrast through the theoretical vocabularies for credit and debt that have emerged since the crisis. The second half explores how this dyad is represented in popular culture, Andrew Niccol's 2011 In Time and Rian Johnson's Looper.It argues that they offer an alternative model of social debt, one that uses the connection between time and work to actively critique the movement from productive to financial capital.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 27 November 2014
Published date: 27 November 2014
Organisations: English

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Local EPrints ID: 392750
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/392750
ISSN: 0950-236X
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