Index
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Abélard, Peter, 189
Absalom, Absalom! See Faulkner, William
Adorno, Theodor, 6–7, 17–18, 246n11
A Farewell to Arms. See Hemingway, Ernest
Agamben, Giorgio, 55, 93, 166–67, 175, 252n6, 256n3, 260n9, 267n27, 274n17, 274n18
Althusser, Louis, 76, 217, 283n2
Amazon.com, 68
À Nous la liberté. See Clair, René
Apple, 46, 100–1, 126, 247n5, 260n15, 260n16, 261n19, 261n21
Applyby, Joyce, 157
Arendt, Hannah, 54–55, 66, 93, 167, 252n5, 252n6, 274n18, 274n19
Ariely, Dan, 270n20
Aristophanes, 276n6
Aristotle, 4, 115, 158–59, 162–63, 245n1, 256–57n8, 273n9
Atlas Shrugged. See Rand, Ayn
Badiou, Alain, 76–77, 173–74, 181, 188–89, 245n1, 274n22, 275n27
Balda, Kyle, The Lorax, 95
Balibar, Étienne, 283n2
Baran, Paul, 262n29
Barboza, David, 261n21
Bastille, 13, 189
Bataille, Georges, 110–11
Baudelaire, Charles, 70, 256n1
Beckett, Samuel, End Game, 212
Behavioral theory, 56–57, 144–45, 270n20, 270n21
Behind the Green Door. See Mitchell, Artie and Jim
Biden, Joe, 253n11
The Blithedale Romance. See Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boltanski, Luc, 170
Bookchin, Bea, 283n34
Boothby, Richard, 259n6, 267n30
Bourgeoisie, 8, 10
Božovič, Miran, 257–58n15
Breuer, Joseph, 16
The Bride Wore Black. See Truffaut, François
Brunette, Peter, 233
Bruno, Giordano, 115, 261n22
Bush, George W., 44
Butler, Judith, 174
Cabaret. See Fosse, Bob
Camus, Albert, 264n2
Capra, Frank, It’s a Wonderful Life, 81–82
Carlyle, Thomas, 280n6
Carson, Rachel, 147–48
Chaplin, Charlie, Modern Times, 161, 272n6
Chiapello, Eve, 170
Cienaños de soledad. See Márquez, Gabriel García
Citizen Kane. See Welles, Orson
Clair, René, À Nous la liberté, 272n6
Clausius, Rudolf, 138
Clooney, George, 117
Coke, 46, 64, 255n24
Communism, 76, 83, 119; abundance, 200, 204–5; critique, 47, 167, 252n2; revolution, 9, 70–71, 173–74; society, 154–56
Congo, 97–102, 260n16, 261n17, 261n19
Copernicus, 115
Copjec, Joan, 79, 180
Coppola, Sofia, Lost in Translation, 231–35
Creative destruction, 90–91, 259n2
Critchley, Simon, 173, 275n26
Cronenberg, David, Crash, 44; A Dangerous Method, 245–46n8
Crash. See Cronenberg, David
Crowe, Cameron, Jerry Maguire, 278n25
The Cry of the Owl. See Highsmith, Patricia
A Dangerous Method. See Cronenberg, David
d’Argenteuil, Héloïse, 189
Davis, Walter, 285n19
Dean, Jodi, 258n18
Debord, Guy, 19–20
Deconstruction, 13, 249–250n17
Deleuze, Gilles, 10, 48–49, 109, 259–260n7, 263n37, 272n37
Derrida, Jacques, 13
Descartes, René, 62, 116–117, 164, 264n4, 282n26
Dialectics, 136, 155, 267n2
Disaster, 139
Dixon, William, 128
Dodd-Frank Act, 101
Drive. See Refn, Nicolas Winding
Duchamp, Marcel, Fountain, 167–68
Duhigg, Charles, 261n21
Earthquake. See Robson, Mark
Eichmann, Adolf, 266n23
Emancipation, 7, 16, 88–89, 214, 243, 259n22
Emmerich, Roland, 2012, 139
End Game. See Beckett, Samuel
Engels, Friedrich, 72, 98–100, 155, 218, 225, 272n37
Enlightenment, 90–91, 94
Enough Project, 101, 260n16
Entropy, 138–39, 268n7
Equality, 3–6, 17, 259n22, 265n10
Ephron, Nora, You’ve Got Mail, 278n26
Fanon, Frantz, 285–86n23
Fahrenheit 451. See Truffaut, François
Fairbairn, W. R. D., 27–29
Fascism, 47, 88–89, 259n22
Faulkner, William, 212–14; Absalom, Absalom!, 213; The Sound and the Fury, 213, 283n32
Federal Reserve, 83, 208
Ferguson, Niall, 141
Fetishistic disavowal, 97, 102–3, 258n17, 261n23
Feuerbach, Ludwig, 155
Fichte, J. G., 136, 248n7
Final cause, 162–66, 171, 175, 273n9, 273n10, 273–74n14, 274n15
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby, 126–27
Fleischacker, Samuel, 129–30
Foley, James, Glengarry Glen Ross, 273–74n14
Ford, John, The Searchers, 81, 258n16
Fosse, Bob, Cabaret, 171
Foucault, Michel, 9–11, 133–34, 280n5
Fountain. See Duchamp, Marcel
The 400 Blows. See Truffaut, François
Fourier, Charles, 13, 205
Frankfurt School, 6–7, 284n5
Freedom, 4, 47–50, 60, 65, 186, 249n14, 251n28, 274n21; choice, 266n19; economic, 44, 251n31, 265n14, 265n15; and God, 114–35, 267n30; liberal, 265n3, 265n10, 265n14, 265n15; moral law, 264n7, 265n7, 265n8
Free speech movement, 170
Freud, Sigmund, 240, 254n20, 257n10; Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 16, 28, 32, 49–50, 243; Civilization and Its Discontents, 1, 61–62; critique of capitalism, 5–11, 14, 245n4; and Jung, 245–246n8; loss, 15–18, 27–30, 32, 41, 205–6; sacrifice, 91, 259n5; self-interest, 73–74, 256n4; sublimation, 246n13; trauma, 201, 281n14
Frey, Bruno, 145
Friedman, Milton, 47, 74, 109, 119, 207–8, 230, 251n31
Fromm, Erich, 245n4
Fundamentalism, 112, 235–37
Gates, Bill, 168
Gaze, 78–83, 86–89, 257n12, 257–58n15, 258n16
Galilei, Galileo, 115, 189
General Equilibrium Theory, 96, 107
Geocentrism, 115–16
Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas, 138, 268n7
The Getaway. See Peckinpah, Sam
Gillespie, Craig, Lars and the Real Girl, 276–77n13
Girard, René, 91, 259n5
Glengarry Glen Ross. See Foley, James
God, 114–35
Gold standard, 83–84
Google, 126, 260n15
Graeber, David, 251n29
Great Depression, 58, 83, 106, 207–8
The Great Gatsby. See Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Greece (antiquity), 58, 93, 168–69, 260n9
Gross, Otto, 7–11, 17, 245–46n8
Guattari, Félix, 10, 48–49, 109, 263n37, 272n37
Guevara, Che, 12
Guillermin, John, The Towering Inferno, 139
Habermas, Jürgen, 59, 253n12
Happiness economics, 145–47
Hardt, Michael, 173, 259–60n7, 274n15
Harvey, David, 86, 268–69n12, 282n24
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Blithedale Romance, 282n22; The Scarlet Letter, 282n22
Hayek, F. A., 74, 109, 121–23, 140, 265n14, 265n15
Hegel, G. W. F., 247n3, 248n10, 267n30, 271n27; critique of capitalism, 284n6, 285n20, 286n26; critique of Kant, 228–31, 235, 237, 248n7; cunning of reason, 131, 266n24; individual, 169, 274n21; infinite, 136–37, 140, 145, 150–51, 153–56, 268n3, 268n4; mediation, 247n4, 252–63n8; revolution, 174, 267n2; sacrifice, 91, 109; substance, 250–51n24, 263–64n1, 264n4
Heidegger, Martin, 151–52, 250n23, 260n9, 271n31, 271n33
Heliocentrism, 115–16, 263–64n1
Hemingway, Ernest, 283n30; A Farewell to Arms, 212–13; The Sun Also Rises, 212–13
Highsmith, Patricia, The Cry of the Owl, 277n15
Hitchcock, Alfred, 192–93; Psycho, 246n15; Rear Window, 257–58n15; Vertigo, 249n16
Hollywood, 42, 79, 154, 192, 194–95
Horney, Karen, 133
Housing bubble, 86
Huis clos. See Sartre, Jean-Paul
Human nature, 2, 22–23, 56
Hume, David, 282n26
Hysteria, 16–17, 74
Ideology, 22, 110, 209, 254n18, 281n15; freedom, 119; love, 179, 191–92, 194–95, 277–78n21, 278n23; nature, 77, 81, 138, 201; promise, 11; surveillance, 67–68; utility, 107, 112; vitalism, 109
Injustice, 3–6, 10–11, 118, 239, 243
Inquisition, 115, 121
Invisible hand, 130–35, 204, 267n27
It’s a Wonderful Life. See Capra, Frank
Jameson, Fredric, 13
Jerry Maguire. See Crowe, Cameron
Jobs, Steve, 100
Johnson, Lyndon, 252n2
Jung, Carl, 245–46n8
Kahneman, Daniel, 57, 270n21
Kant, Immanuel, 62, 136, 240, 264n6, 266n23, 272n3, 284n6; freedom, 117–19, 130, 264n7, 264n8; sublime, 219–30, 228–31, 235, 237, 284n11, 285n19; thing in itself, 248n7
Keynes, John Maynard, 85, 105–7, 207–8, 262n31, 282n23, 282n26, 282n27
Kierkegaard, Søren, 151, 247n4, 266n19, 273n10
Klein, Melanie, 249n13
Kordela, Kiarina, 265n12
Kornbluh, Anna, 150
Krugman, Paul, 206, 282n23
Labor, 4, 54–55, 59, 96, 103–4, 159–67, 252n5, 260n13, 279n2
Labor theory of value, 95–96, 198, 222
Lacan, Jacques, 62, 248–249n11, 249n13; desire, 247–48n6, 267n28; fantasy, 43–44; gaze, 78, 257n13; love, 180–81, 186–87, 277n18, 278n22; objet a, 26, 255n21, 255n23; Other, 35, 134; satisfaction, 31; sublimation, 283n1
Lars and the Real Girl. See Gillespie, Craig
Lasch, Christopher, 60
Latour, Bruno, 273n12
Leary, Timothy, 274n23
Lenin, V. I., 205, 281n20
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 251n28
Liberalism, 66
The Lorax. See Renaud, Chris and Balda, Kyle
Lost in Translation. See Coppola, Sofia
Lovelock, James, 147
Luccheli, Juan Pablo, 183
Lukács, Georg, 118, 136, 257n9, 267n2, 284n5
Luxemburg, Rosa, 17, 205
Maddison, Angus, 141–42
Mad Men, 146–47, 270n24
Malthus, Thomas Robert, 268n11
Mandell, Ernest, 262n25, 282n25
Manon, Hugh, 250n18
Marcuse, Herbert, 8–9, 246n11
Marginal utility theory, 55, 226, 285n16
La mariéeétait en noir. See Truffaut, François
Márquez, Gabriel García, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cienaños de soledad), 172–73
Marshall, Alfred, 143–44, 253n9
Marshall, Garry, Pretty Woman, 193–95
Martin, Trayvon, 254n15
Marx, Karl, 12, 167, 232, 250n22, 260n11, 268n11, 272n37; accumulation, 240–44; commodity, 216–20, 225, 283–84n4, 284n5; consumption, 36, 108; crisis, 86, 72; freedom, 120; and Freud, 15–16, 18, 133, 245n4; and Hegel, 136, 283n2, 284n6; injustice, 4–7; nature, 76–77; privacy, 252–53n8, 254n14; production, 36–38, 250n19, 265n13; revolution, 9–11, 13, 153–56, 175, 210, 238, 256n4, 280n9, 281n20; surplus value, 4–5, 8, 37, 74, 95–96, 222
Marxism, 18, 206–7, 281n16, 282n25, 285–86n23
Mauss, Marcel, 91, 259n5
May 1968, 30, 169–70, 274n22
McCloskey, Diedre, 199–200, 222
McVeigh, Timothy, 237
Menger, Carl, 56, 227
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 272n5
Messianism, 139
Metzler, Allan, 247n1
Michell, Roger, Notting Hill, 194–95
Mill, John Stuart, 158, 271–72n36
Miracle. See O’Connor, Gavin
Mises, Ludwig von, 119–21, 123, 164–65
Mississippi Mermaid. See Truffaut, François
Mitchell, Artie and Jim, Behind the Green Door, 171
Modernism, 212–14
Modern Times. See Chaplin, Charlie
Monster.com, 126
Munchausen, Baron von, 203
Nagel, Thomas, 273n11
Nasio, Juan-David, 203
National Security Agency, 68
Nazism, 66, 88
Negri, Antonio, 13, 173, 259–60n7, 274n15
Neurosis, 1, 8, 15, 61, 73, 133–35
New Deal, 83, 88, 262n31
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 256–57n8, 265n16
Nike, 68
1984. See Orwell, George
Nixon, Richard, 83–84
No Exit. See Sartre, Jean-Paul
Nordhaus, Ted, 147–48, 271n26
Notting Hill. See Michell, Roger
Obama, Barack, 58, 252n2, 253n11, 261n24
Objectivism, 75
Object relations psychoanalysis, 27–28
Obsession, 16–17
Occupy movement, 84, 258n18
O’Connor, Gavin, Miracle, 278n27
One Hundred Years of Solitude. See Márquez, Gabriel García
Onfray, Michel, 5
Orientalism, 231–35, 286n25, 286n26
Orwell, George, 1984, 278n23
Owen, Robert, 13, 205
Pascal, Blaise, 143
Peckinpah, Sam, The Getaway, 171
Piketty, Thomas, 269–70n19
Pinker, Steven, 279–80n3
Plato, 116, 181–84, 245n1, 276n6, 276n7, 276n9
Polgreen, Lydia, 261n17
Pornography, 171
Postscarcity, 200, 211, 214
Potentiality, 166–67, 274n18
Power, 10, 232, 274n19
Pretty Woman. See Marshall, Garry
Private language, 52–53
Proletariat, 7–8, 210, 285–86n23
Promentheus. See Scott, Ridley
Promise, 11–16, 33, 38, 48, 199, 223–25, 231, 235–38, 244, 246n15
Psycho. See Hitchcock, Alfred
Ptolemy, 115
Putnam, Robert, 60
Les quatre cents coups. See Truffaut, François
Qur’an, 203, 281n16
Rancière, Jacques, 55, 71, 76, 252n6
Rand, Ayn, 76–77, 87, 118, 256n6, 256–57n8, 284n8
Atlas Shrugged, 74–75
Rational Choice theory, 56–57, 144–45
Rear Window. See Hitchcock, Alfred
Refn, Nicolas Winding, Drive, 79–81, 258n16
Reich, Wilhelm, 7–11, 246n9, 246n10
Renaud, Chris, The Lorax, 95
Renton, David, 101
Repression, 5–18, 239, 243, 246n13
Revolution, 9, 12–16, 40, 50, 70–71, 77, 153–56, 172, 214, 229–30, 235
Ricardo, David, 95, 108–10, 198–99, 222
Robbins, Lionel, 96, 198–99, 262n33, 280n7
Robson, Mark, Earthquake, 139
Roberts, Julia, 193–94
Romeo and Juliet. See Shakespeare, William
Roosevelt, Franklin, 58, 83, 252n2, 262n31
Rorty, Richard, 286n30
Rose, Gillian, 285n20
Rothenberg, Molly, 214, 255n22
Rougement, Denis de, 186, 277n14
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 51, 54, 69
Russian Revolution, 70–71
Said, Edward, 231–32, 286n224, 285–86n23
Sandel, Michael, 148–50
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 76
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 123, 184, 266n19, 271n33, 276n12; No Exit (Huis clos), 212
Satz, Debra, 148–49
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 24–25, 248n7, 248n9
Savio, Mario, 170
Scalia, Antonin, 261n24
The Scarlet Letter. See Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Schelling, F. W. J., 248n7
Schumpeter, Joseph, 90–91, 236, 259n2
Scott, Ridley, Prometheus, 271n30
Second Law of Thermodynamics, 93, 138
Seddon, David, 101
Sembène, Ousmane, Xala, 285–86n23
September 11, 2001, 44, 236
Sexual liberation, 7–10, 171
Shellenberger, Michael, 147–48, 271n26
Shoot the Piano Player. See Truffaut, François
Shyamalan, M. Night, 250n18
Simmel, Georg, 46, 226
Singer, Peter, 158
La sirène du Mississippi. See Truffaut, François
The Searchers. See Ford, John
Shakespeare, William, Romeo and Juliet, 190
Singer, Bryan, The Usual Suspects, 70, 89
Skull and Bones, 44, 251n27
Slavery, 3–4
Smith, Adam, 108, 110, 118
Das Adam Smith Problem, 128–33, 135; labor theory of value, 95, 222; morality, 204, 252–53n8, 266n23; progress, 144–45, 269–70n19; self-interest, 55–56, 75–76, 257n10, 266n24, 267n27
Socialism, 8–9, 158, 231; abundance, 200, 204–5, 211; critique, 47, 252n2; Hegel, 136, 155
Socrates, 168–69, 181–83, 276n6, 276n7, 267n9
Sombart, Werner, 104–5
The Sopranos, 160–61
The Sound and the Fury. See Faulkner, William
Spartacus, 4
Spectacle, 19–20
Spielrein, Sabina, 245–46n8
Spinoza, Baruch, 124, 163, 166, 263–64n1, 274n15, 284n6
Stalinism, 66, 272n5
Star Trek, 281–82n21
Stock market, 46–47, 94
Stone, Oliver, Wall Street, 269n14
Strike, 162, 273n7
The Sun Also Rises. See Hemingway, Ernest
Supply and demand, 95
Surplus value, 6, 167; see also Marx, Karl
Surveillance, 67–69, 255–56n27
Sweezy, Paul, 262n29
Terrorism, 44, 111–13
Thaler, Richard, 56–57
Thoreau, Henry David, 251n25
Timmerman, Kelsey, 260n13
Tirez sur le pianiste. See Truffaut, François
Totalitarianism, 47, 66–67
To the Lighthouse. See Woolf, Virginia
The Towering Inferno. See Guillermin, John
Truffaut, François: The Bride Wore Black (La mariéeétait en noir), 255n25; Fahrenheit 451, 255n25; The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups), 65–66, 255n25; Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississippi), 255n25; Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le pianiste), 255n25
The Truman Show. See Weir, Peter
Trump, Donald, 118, 135, 168
2012. See Emmerich, Roland
Universality, 7, 117, 253n12
Utilitarianism, 158, 272n3
Utopia, 2, 200, 202, 205, 282n22
Vertigo. See Hitchcock, Alfred
Vietnam War, 171
Vitalism, 10, 92–93, 109, 256–57n8, 259–60n7
Wall Street. See Stone, Oliver
Walmart, 100
Walras, Léon, 107, 280n8
Walton, Sam, 100
Weir, Peter, The Truman Show, 87
Welles, Orson, Citizen Kane, 33–35, 249n16, 250n18
Wilson, David, 128
Winter Palace, 13
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 52–53
Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse, 212
Xala. See Sembène, Ousmane
Xenos, Nicholas, 279n1
You’ve Got Mail. See Ephron, Nora
Zeilig, Leo, 101
Zenith, 46
Zimmerman, George, 254n15
Žižek, Slavoj, 173
Zupančič, Alenka, 117–18