J. Paul Narkunas

Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition

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Produktbeschreibung

J. Paul Narkunas is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780823280308
• ISBN-10: 0823280306
• Artikelnr.: 50907690

Autorenporträt

J. Paul Narkunas is Associate Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and their Discontents
Chapter 1: Market Humans: Homo Oeconomicus, Entrepreneurs, and Beings of
Risk
Chapter 2: Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating "We
Other Humans"
Chapter 3: The Hedge Fund of Reality: Ontology and Financial Derivatives
Chapter 4: Human Rights and States of Emergency: Humanitarians and
Governmentality
Chapter 5: Translating Rights: The International Criminal Court,
Translation and the Human Status
Chapter 6: Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life with Gary
Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story
Chapter 7: Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other
Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddams
Chapter 9: Reification of the Human: Global Organ Harvesting and Kazuo
Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
Conclusion: Ahumans: A Guide to Non-Market Living