Capital and ressentiment
The totalizing power of social fragmentation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4495243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Vogl (0000-0002-0104-748X, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 140-145 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Finance and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2059-5999 • E-ISSN: 2059-5999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2218/finsoc.v7i2.6632 |
| OpenAlex | W4200368564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
Joseph Vogl's new book, Capital and Ressentiment (2021/2022), traces an epistemic shift from knowledge to information driven by the convergence of financialization and the platform economy. As a variable that is determined less by semantic content than by difference to existing expectations, information invites indifference to other distinctions, such as those between fact and fiction, claim and proof. The circulation of information takes the form of opinion markets wherein the production of reality itself is at stake. In this extract, taken from the book's final chapter, "The cunning of ressentiment-driven reason", Vogl analyses populist ressentiment as both structural affect of and vital resource for information capitalism, laying out the resulting reconfiguration of the social
Social capital · Social science · Sociology · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |