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Reified life : speculative capital and the ahuman condition /
'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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: humanisms, posthumanisms, and their discontents
- Part I. Instrumentalizing life
- Market humans: Homo oeconomicus, entrepreneurs, and neoliberal beings of risk
- Utilitarian humanism: "we other humans" regulated by culture
- The hedge fund of reality: ontology and financial derivatives
- Part II. Human rights and the political reformations of the market human
- Human rights and states of emergency: humanitarians and governmentality
- Translating rights: the international criminal court, translation, and the human status
- Part III. Speculative fictions: political aesthetics adrift in speculative capital flows
- Speculative fictions and other cartographies of life
- Between words, numbers, and things: transgenics and other objects of life in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy
- Reification of the human: global organ harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go
- Conclusion. Ahumans: a guide to nonmarket living.