{"product_id":"reified-life-speculative-capital-and-the-ahuman-condition-hardback-9780823280308","title":"Reified Life; Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition (Hardback) 9780823280308","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReified Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpeculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. Paul Narkunas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823280308\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.662 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReified Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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. The 2008 economic crisis solidified the dominion of neoliberal and financial capital to organize human societies much to the detriment of the world's populations. \u003ci\u003eReified Life\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes the dangerous social implications of a posthuman future, whereby human agency is secondary to algorithmic processes, digital protocols, speculative financial instruments, and nonhuman market and technological forces.\u003cbr\u003e Employing new readings of Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Marx, Vico, Gramsci, Berardi, and Gilbert Simondon, Narkunas contends that it is premature to speak of a posthuman or inhuman future, or employ an 'ism, given how dynamic and contingent human practices and their material figurations can be. Over several chapters he diagnoses the rise of \"market humans,\" the instrumentalization of culture to decide the life worth living along utilitarian categories, and the varied ways human rights and humanitarianism actually throw members of the species like refugees outside the human order. To combat this, \u003ci\u003eReified Life\u003c\/i\u003e argues against \u003ci\u003eReified Life\u003c\/i\u003e calls to abandon the human and humanism, and instead proposes the ahuman to think alongside the human, what philosopher Gilbert Simondon calls the transindividuation of ontogentic processes rather than subjectivity. To aid the \"figurating animal,\" \u003ci\u003eReified Life\u003c\/i\u003e elaborates speculative fictions as critical mechanisms for envisioning alternative futures and freedoms from the domineering forces of speculative capital, whose fictions have become our realities. Narkunas offers, to that end, a novel interpretation of the post-anthropocentric turn in the humanities by linking the diminished centrality of humanism to the waning dominion of nation-states over their populations and the intensification of financial capitalism, which reconfigures politics along economic categories of risk management.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and their Discontents\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Market Humans: \u003ci\u003eHomo Oeconomicus\u003c\/i\u003e, Entrepreneurs, and Beings of Ris\u003cb\u003ek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating \"We Other Humans\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Hedge Fund of Reality: Ontology and Financial Derivatives\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Human Rights and States of Emergency: Humanitarians and Governmentality \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Translating Rights: The International Criminal Court, Translation and the Human Status\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life with Gary Shteyngart's \u003ci\u003eSuper Sad True Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Between Words, Numbers, and Things: Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eMaddAddams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Reification of the Human: Global Organ Harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro's \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Ahumans: A Guide to Non-Market Living\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580329619736,"sku":"9780823280308","price":81.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reified-life-speculative-capital-and-the-ahuman-condition-hardback-9780823280308","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}