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Endgame: The false destruction of the social imaginary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Nina Boy
Nina Boy*
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Heidelberg University, Germany
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Corresponding author: Nina Boy, Centre forApocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), Berliner Str. 43, 69120Heidelberg, Germany. Email: Nina.Boy@warwick.ac.uk.
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Vogl's account of contemporary financial truth games suggests that a full understanding of our present condition requires the kind of knowledge produced by fiction and those who study it. But what kind of knowledge is that, and how does it escape the capitalist ontology of information?

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Forum: Capital and ressentiment
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Finance and Society , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , 2021 , pp. 162 - 166
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