Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition,Used

Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition,Used

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Even as the 2008 economic crisis solidified the dominion of neoliberal and financial capital to organize human societies much to the detriment of the worlds populations, important questions remain. Among them, what forms of life are free and what forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus? Which of them, human and otherwise, are most expendable?Reified Life theorizes the dangerous social implications of a future where human agency is secondary to algorithmic processes, digital protocols, speculative financial instruments, and nonhuman marketbased technological forces. Employing new readings of Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Marx, Gramsci and others, J. Paul Narkunas contends that it is premature to speak of a posthuman or inhuman future, or to employ any sort of 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, as well as the varied ways in which discourses of human rights and humanitarianism actually throw members of the species refugees, for instance outside the human order.To combat this, Reified Life argues against posthumanist calls to abandon humanism, proposing instead the category of the ahuman. Doing so offers us a way to think alongside the human, and to argue for the value of speculative fiction as a critical mechanism for envisioning alternative futures and freedoms from the domineering forces of speculative capital, whose own fictions have become our realities. To that end, Narkunas provides a novel interpretation of the postanthropocentric turn in the humanities by linking the diminished centrality of humanism to the waning dominion of nationstates over their populations and the intensification of financial capitalism, which reconfigures politics along economic categories of risk management.

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