... been central to the ways shifts in modes of production have been figured in the United States since the dawn of the industrial age. “Figural economy” describes the ways these images circulate; the formulation is defined here. The introduction concludes by introducing two tropes through which...

... industrialization’s successor mode, financialization, uses imagery both very similar to and very different from that of its predecessor. The book uses the methods of performance studies to advance three major points. First, figural economies of tropes, dance and theater conventions, and actual performances shape...