Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology, also at the University of Chicago.

“In an extrarodinary introduction the editors of this book set out to interrogate the features of capitalism at the millennium, not only its technical but also its messianic and magical manifestations. This makes for an unusual treatment of familiar subjects. . . . [M]ust reading for anyone concerned with transnational processes.”-Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City “The savvy success of ‘postmodernism,’ that cynical sign of the fin de siecle, has prevented us from re-imagining the present and mapping the future. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism steps into the breach and opens up a new chapter in our understanding of a world of contradictory forces and ambivalent affiliations. When the rapid expansion of free markets sends sovereign states into free fall, and the value of citizenship is measured in the currency of consumption, the time is ripe for a radical rethinking of political passion in the public interest. In a fine double act the Comaroffs, and their gifted contributors, provide us with brilliant ethnographic and ethical accounts of a world-system whose emergent structures are both older and newer than the globalizing jargon of our times.”-Homi K. Bhabha, University of Chicago

• Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature / Fernando Coronil Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller Millenniums Past, Cuba’s Future? / Paul Ryer Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey Contributors Index

Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology, also at the University of Chicago.

“In an extrarodinary introduction the editors of this book set out to interrogate the features of capitalism at the millennium, not only its technical but also its messianic and magical manifestations. This makes for an unusual treatment of familiar subjects. . . . [M]ust reading for anyone concerned with transnational processes.”-Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City “The savvy success of ‘postmodernism,’ that cynical sign of the fin de siecle, has prevented us from re-imagining the present and mapping the future. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism steps into the breach and opens up a new chapter in our understanding of a world of contradictory forces and ambivalent affiliations. When the rapid expansion of free markets sends sovereign states into free fall, and the value of citizenship is measured in the currency of consumption, the time is ripe for a radical rethinking of political passion in the public interest. In a fine double act the Comaroffs, and their gifted contributors, provide us with brilliant ethnographic and ethical accounts of a world-system whose emergent structures are both older and newer than the globalizing jargon of our times.”-Homi K. Bhabha, University of Chicago

• Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature / Fernando Coronil Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller Millenniums Past, Cuba’s Future? / Paul Ryer Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey Contributors Index

Jean Comaroff is Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.John L. Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anthropology, also at the University of Chicago.

“In an extrarodinary introduction the editors of this book set out to interrogate the features of capitalism at the millennium, not only its technical but also its messianic and magical manifestations. This makes for an unusual treatment of familiar subjects. . . . [M]ust reading for anyone concerned with transnational processes.”-Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City “The savvy success of ‘postmodernism,’ that cynical sign of the fin de siecle, has prevented us from re-imagining the present and mapping the future. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism steps into the breach and opens up a new chapter in our understanding of a world of contradictory forces and ambivalent affiliations. When the rapid expansion of free markets sends sovereign states into free fall, and the value of citizenship is measured in the currency of consumption, the time is ripe for a radical rethinking of political passion in the public interest. In a fine double act the Comaroffs, and their gifted contributors, provide us with brilliant ethnographic and ethical accounts of a world-system whose emergent structures are both older and newer than the globalizing jargon of our times.”-Homi K. Bhabha, University of Chicago

• Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature / Fernando Coronil Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller Millenniums Past, Cuba’s Future? / Paul Ryer Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey Contributors Index