{"title":"”the regular way of trade”: Between trade and speculation in Trollope’s The Way We Live Now, 1875 and Émile Zola’s L’Argent, 1891","authors":"J. Nielsen","doi":"10.7146/KOK.V45I124.25956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/KOK.V45I124.25956","url":null,"abstract":"This article applies a historical formalist method to analyze two literary responses to the late nineteenth-century financial sector in England and France: Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now, 1875 and Émile Zola’s L’Argent, 1891. The central issue in both novels is the legal and conceptual boundary between traditional commerce and financial speculation, and the variety of ways in which established social forms and hierarchies are challenged by a rapid introduction of new forms of financial activity such as joint-stock corporations and limited liability. Both novels concern themselves with the contradictions inherent in the concept of trade and commerce in this transformed financial context, and devote critical attention to the ways in which these new forms collide in the individual lives and ambitions of its characters. Drawing on a recent theory of form by Caroline Levine, the article demonstrates how these literary representations of the accelerating financial sector should not simply be seen as reflections of an economic context in turmoil. Rather, the article argues that they apply the affordances of economic and financial forms in what is essentially an interpretative gesture, directed at the only partially visible and constantly changing reality of financial capitalism. ","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127845753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CELLER TIL SALG: KUNSTNERISKE FORTOLKNINGER AF VÆVSØKONOMIER","authors":"Pernille Leth-Espensen","doi":"10.7146/KOK.V45I124.26343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7146/KOK.V45I124.26343","url":null,"abstract":"CELLS FOR SALE: ARTISTIC INTERPRETATIONS OF TISSUE ECONOMIES \u0000An extensive circulation of human tissue is taking place in our society today: blood, organs, reproductive tissue (eggs and semen), and cell lines. This circulation and commercialisation is thematised by a range of contemporary artists, who creates artworks with cell and tissue culture technologies. The artist Alicia King has bought Hs 53.T cells from the cell bank ATCC (The American Type Culture Collection) and created a monument around this cell line. These cells originate from a 13-year old Afro-American girl, and the cell sample was taken in 1969. The artist Chrissy Conant instead uses her own tissue. She has ’harvested’ 12 of her own eggs at a fertility clinic, preserved them in glass jars with a lid inspired by caviar packaging, and put them for sale at $250.000. In the article it is argued that the artworks address the commercial relations in cell and tissue culture technologies by making visible technologies or processes that are unknown to the broader public or through a strategy of exaggeration. ","PeriodicalId":407187,"journal":{"name":"K&K - Kultur og Klasse","volume":"270 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123418246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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