Clickbait capitalism

<p>The notion of 'clickbait' speaks to the intersection of money technology and desire suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. <i>Clickbait capitalism</i> pursues the idea that the entire contemporary economy is just such a ruse; an elaborate exercise in psychological capture and release.<br><br>Pushing beyond rationalist accounts of economic life this volume puts psychoanalysis and political economy into conversation with the cutting edges of capitalist development. Perennial questions of death sex aggression enjoyment despair hope and revenge are followed onto the terrain of the contemporary with chapters devoted to social media online dating apps cryptocurrencies NFTs and meme stocks. The result is a unique and compelling portrait of the latest institutions to stage channel or reconfigure the psychic energies of political and economic life.</p>