ST ch 7 Dracula

[Mike Weaver]

The vampire as a motif for capitalism predates Dracula - Moretti is 
quoting/paraphrasing Marx from Das Kapital published 30 years before 
Stoker published Dracula.
See Walter Crane's poster "The Vampire"published in Justice in 1885.
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O708342/the-vampire-cartoon-walter-crane/

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On 16/05/2026 22:11, Robin Landseadel via Pynchon-l wrote:
> I’m hopscotching around Shadow Ticket in presenting these posts, hope you don’t mind.
> This is a big one, strap in.
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> Dracula strikes me as central to the concerns of the Shadow Ticket, a wormhole into the
> dimly-lit past and an arrow to future consolidation of economic power.
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