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Migrant futures : decolonizing speculation in financial times /

"In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of specula...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bahng, Aimee, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On speculation: fiction, finance, and futurity
  • Imperial rubber: the speculative arcs of Karen Tei Yamashita's rainforest futures
  • Homeland futurity: speculations at the border
  • Speculation and the speculum: necropolitical surrogations of futurity
  • The cruel optimism of the Asian century
  • Salt fish futures: the irradiated transpacific and the financialization of the human genome project
  • Speculation as discourse, speculation as exuberance.