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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
'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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Bioengineering |
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Deleuze |
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Financial Capitalism |
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Foucault |
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Guattari |
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Human Rights |
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Human |
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Humanitarianism |
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Market Human |
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Neoliberalism |
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Organ Transplantation |
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Posthuman |
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Reification |
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Simondon |
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Speculative Literature |
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Translation |
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Structuralism.
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Poststructuralism.
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Forecasting.
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Humanism.
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Human beings.
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Life.
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Forecasting
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Humanism
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Humans
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post-structuralism.
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humanism.
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Homo sapiens (species)
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structuralism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Post-Structuralism.
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Forecasting
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Human beings
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Humanism
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Life
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Poststructuralism
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Structuralism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823280339 |
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0823280330 |
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