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Author:   J. Paul Narkunas
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823280315

ISBN 10:   0823280314
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   03 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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Reified Life brilliantly brings together seemingly opposing strands of contemporary theory: Marxist accounts of neoliberalism and financialization on the one hand and posthumanist accounts of the decentering of human life on the other. Rather than demonstrating these methodologies as incompatible, Narkunas reveals their intimacy. This intimacy is organized around a new kind of reification, one that produces the ahuman. A necessary read. -- Christopher Breu * author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics *

Reified Life brilliantly brings together seemingly opposing strands of contemporary theory: Marxist accounts of neoliberalism and financialization on the one hand and posthumanist accounts of the decentering of human life on the other. Rather than demonstrating these methodologies as incompatible, Narkunas reveals their intimacy. This intimacy is organized around a new kind of reification, one that produces the ahuman. A necessary read.--Christopher Breu author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics

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

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