Accelerating possession
Subtitle: global futures of property and personhood
By: edited by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab.
Contributors: Maurer, Bill, 1968-; Schwab, Gabriele.
Series: Critical Theory Institute Books; Critical Theory Institute Books at the University of California, Irvine.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Property.; Privatization.; Persons.; Humanism.; Postmodernism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: My self and my own : one and the same? / Etienne Balibar; title: The future of nationalist appropriation / Pheng Cheah; title: Transnational topographies of power : beyond "The State" and "civil society" in the study of African politics / James G. Ferguson; title: Mercantilism, federalism, and the market within reason : the people and the conceptual impossibility of racial Blackness / Lindon W. Barrett; title: Divided origins and the arithmetic of ownership / Marilyn Strathern; title: One two three : the psychic economy of multiplicty / Akira Mizuta Lippit; title: Languge of order(s) : Jenny Holzer in the public sphere / Alexander Gelley; title: Ethnographies of the future : personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Gabriele Schwab; title: (Un)masking the agent : distributed cognition in Stanislaw Lem's "The Mask" / N. Katherine Hayles.