J. Paul Narkunas

Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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

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 Ishigurös Never Let Me Go Conclusion: Ahumans: A Guide to Non-Market Living