Reified Life : : Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition / / J. Paul Narkunas.
Reified Life addresses the most pressing political question of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus or expendable, human and otherwise. The 2008 economic crisis solidified the dominion of neoliberal and financial capital to or...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- acknowledgments
- introduction. Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and Their Discontents
- part I. Instrumentalizing Life
- chapter 1. Market Humans
- chapter 2. Utilitarian Humanism "We Other Humans" Regulated by Culture
- chapter 3. The Hedge Fund of Reality
- part II. Human Rights and the Political Reformations of the Market Human
- chapter 4. Human Rights and States of Emergency
- chapter 5. Translating Rights
- part III. Speculative Fictions: Political Aesthetics Adrift in Speculative Capital Flows
- chapter 6. Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life
- chapter 7. Between Words, Numbers, and Things Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy
- chapter 8. Reification of the Human
- conclusion. Ahumans: A Guide to Nonmarket Living
- Notes
- Index