Accelerating Possession

Global Futures of Property and Personhood

AvBill Maurer,Gabriele Schwab

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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Accelerating Possession is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines how recent economic movements have revolutionized the relationship between property and personhood. These prominent scholars argue that in our present age, globalization, rampant privatization, and biotechnology have irrevocably changed traditional ideas of property and the self. Definitions of property no longer correspond to the configurations of the person who owns or is subjected to property. Self and ownership have a whole new arithmetic.In these essays, privatization is understood as an array of interconnected processes and relationships through which the capitalist marketplace controls, among other things, the political rights, social membership, and knowledge production that constitute personhood. The contributors believe such processes are accelerating profoundly, and they examine the effects via a range of topics, including the invention of property rights in U.S.-occupied Iraq, the work of John Locke, the art of Jenny Holzer, and the writing of Octavia Butler and Stanislaw Lem.They explore the synergy and dissonance between conceptions of the private as marketable and the private as inalienable, and consider how the contemporary transformations and futures of property and personhood relate to concepts of citizenship, state, culture, and education.These essays were all written with the guiding belief that the evolving relationship between ownership and the self has a fundamental effect on debates in critical theory. The essays are methodologically linked through their emphasis on the linguistic and rhetorical, as well as the philosophical and epistemological. Their focus on reflections of property and personhood in literary, textual, or artistic objects makes this collection a vital cross-disciplinary tool.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-04-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Theory Institute Book
Antal sidor:186
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231137843

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Bill Maurer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of three books, including Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason.Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and faculty associate in anthropology. She is the author of four books, including Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction and The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language.

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"With a keen sensitivity to changing practices of property under globalizing neoliberal capitalism, this volume offers a penetrating critique of the deep ideology that has long permeated the operation of Euro-American institutions." - George E. Marcus, Rice University"

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Acknowledgments Introduction. The Political and Psychic Economies of Accelerating Possession, by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab Part I. Histories, Nations, Institutions 1. "My Self and My Own: One and the Same?," by Etienne Balibar 2. "The Future of Nationalist Appropriation," by Pheng Cheah 3. "Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond 'The State' and 'Civil Society' in the Study of African Politics," by James G. Ferguson 4. "Mercantilism," by Federalism Part II. Posthuman Futures: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Personhood 5. "Divided Origins and the Arithmetic of Ownership," by Marilyn Strathern 6. "One Two Three: The Psychic Economy of Multiplicity, by Akira Mizuta Lippit 7. Language of Order(s): Jenny Holzer in the Public Sphere," by Alexander Gelley 8. "Ethnographies of the Future: Personhood, Agency, and Power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis," by Gabriele Schwab 9. "(Un)masking the Agent: Distributed Cognition in Stanislaw Lem's 'The Mask'," by N. Katherine Hayles List of Contributors Index