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Cole demonstrates, the two are folded intricately into each other. Through an ... Prince William, Cole's wide ranging and provocative work reveals the complex.
The pomp and ceremony of a royal wedding might seem a strange anachronism in a world of global inance and cyber-capitalism. Yet, as David Cole demonstrates, the two are folded intricately into each other. Through an immanent materialist analysis that brings together key recent and historical moments or ‘plateaus’ in the emergence of capitalism, liberalism, and constitutional monarchy, and culminating in Kate Middleton’s 2011 marriage to Prince William, Cole’s wide ranging and provocative work reveals the complex and subtle ways in which capitalism’s decoding and deterritorialization go hand-in-hand with the continuation of social privileges and hierarchies. Along the way he speaks to the major political movements of the last century (liberalism, communism, fascism, empire, and decolonization), the globalization of media, the 2008 inancial crisis, and more. Linking these to both established and emerging theories of radical political action, Cole traces the moments of rupture that might allow another politics to come to the fore. Nathan Widder, Royal Holloway, University of London.

DAVID R. COLE is a university lecturer at the University of Western Sydney.

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CAPITALISED EDUCATION DAVID R. COLE

Capitalised Education is not a biography of Kate Middleton, but, rather, understands her wedding on April 29th 2011 as a ‘plateau’, wherein a complex knot of social, political and economic forces collided. The chapters of the book make up a nonlinear history of the royal wedding, a history that is underpinned by the ways in which power has been handled by the British royal family through time.

DAVID R. COLE

CAPITALISED EDUCATION AN IMMANENT MATERIALIST ACCOUNT OF KATE MIDDLETON