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Author Narkunas, J. Paul,
Title Reified life : speculative capital and the ahuman condition / J. Paul Narkunas.
Publisher New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition First edition.


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Edition First edition.
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.
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ISBN 9780823280339 (electronic bk.)
0823280330 (electronic bk.)
9780823280308
0823280306
9780823280315
0823280314
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Author Narkunas, J. Paul,
Subject Structuralism.
Poststructuralism.
Forecasting.
Humanism.
Human beings.
Life.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Edition First edition.
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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780823280339 (electronic bk.)
0823280330 (electronic bk.)
9780823280308
0823280306
9780823280315
0823280314
Author Narkunas, J. Paul,
Subject Structuralism.
Poststructuralism.
Forecasting.
Humanism.
Human beings.
Life.

Subject Structuralism.
Poststructuralism.
Forecasting.
Humanism.
Human beings.
Life.
Descript 1 online resource
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780823280339 (electronic bk.)
0823280330 (electronic bk.)
9780823280308
0823280306
9780823280315
0823280314
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