Purnima Mankekar, Akhil Gupta

The Future of Futurity

Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028321
• ISBN-10: 1478028327
• Artikelnr.: 71883290

Autorenporträt

Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Llerena Guiu Searle and Kathryn Mariner  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction: Disjunctive Temporalities, Discrepant Futures  1
1. Mobility, Emplacement, Translation  47
2. Shopping Malls as Infrastructures of Aspirations: Learning to Labor in
Spaces of Leisure  100
3. Intimacies at Work  137
4. The Missed Period: Disjunctive Temporalities, Embodiment, and the Work
of Capital  179
Conclusion. Potentiality and Future Tense  222
Notes  243
References Cited  267
Index