The Zombie Capitalism：Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire- and zombie-fables from sub-Saharan Africa, and it connects these to Marxs persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism. Reading across these tales of the grotesque, Monsters of the Market offers a novel account of the cultural and corporeal economy of a global market-system. The book thus makes original contributions to political economy, cultural theory, commodification-studies and body-theory.

This issue translate the introduction of book Monsters of the Market, and with chapter summaries of In Frankenstein's Shadow, and texts excerpts from current Chinese web novels and fanzines as reference materials.

這期試讀本翻譯了《市場的怪獸：喪尸、吸血鬼和資本主義》導語，並摘選了《在弗蘭肯斯坦的陰影下》一書各章梗概，指出怪獸或畸形的故事與工業時代后身體恐慌、人的異化有關，並和馬克思在《資本論》中的怪物隱喻相聯系，由此對應到當代非洲的都市傳說；及摘選了中國當下的網絡小說和同人本作為參考材料。