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In Part 2 of Superstructure\\u2019s \\u201cPostmodern Money Theory!\\u201d series, Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson explore B.S. Johnson\\u2019s postmodern novella, Christie Malry\\u2019s Own Double-Entry (1973), which self-consciously weaves money and accounting into the very fabric of literary form. Regarded as brokering a broader transition between modernism and postmodernism, Johnson paradoxically conceded that \\u201cto tell stories is to tell lies,\\u201d while remaining committed to the revelatory \\u201ctruthfulness\\u201d of literary form. In Christy Malry\\u2019s Own Double-Entry, Johnson tells the metafictional story of a disaffected young man, Christie Malry. Throughout the book, Malry applies the principles of double-entry bookkeeping in response to injustices in his life, "crediting" himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for perceived "debits.\\u201d\\xa0

Our co-hosts trace Christy Malry\\u2019s multifaceted approach to accounting, which cuts across questions of money, narrativity, enumeration, and reckoning in economic, ethical, historical, and even biblical senses. Affirming the text\\u2019s defamiliarizing insights, Rob and Scott unpack how Johnson\\u2019s satirical and estranging use of language unsettles dominant visions of money as a merely finite and located particular. At the same time, however, they also weigh the book\\u2019s problems and limits, flagging Johnson\\u2019s unquestioned white masculine framing of accounting, for example, despite his socialistic aspirations and attentiveness to form\\u2019s social restrictions. Stay tuned for the third installment of \\u201cPostmodern Monetary Theory!,\\u201d in which Rob and Scott further plumb Christy Malry\\u2019s Own Double-Entry for its postmodern lessons about the aesthetics and politics of credit and debt.

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