Accelerating possession : global futures of property and personhood / edited by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab.

Other author Maurer, Bill, 1968-
Other author Schwab, Gabriele.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionviii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCritical Theory Institute books
Critical Theory Institute books. ^A631278
Contents My self and my own : one and the same? / Etienne Balibar -- The future of nationalist appropriation / Pheng Cheah -- Transnational topographies of power : beyond "The State" and "civil society" in the study of African politics / James G. Ferguson -- Mercantilism, U.S. federalism, and the market within reason : the "people" and the conceptual impossibility of racial Blackness / Lindon W. Barrett -- Divided origins and the arithmetic of ownership / Marilyn Strathern -- One two three : the psychic economy of multiplicty / Akira Mizuta Lippit -- Languge of order(s) : Jenny Holzer in the public sphere / Alexander Gelley -- Ethnographies of the future : personhood, agency, and power in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis / Gabriele Schwab -- (Un)masking the agent : distributed cognition in Stanislaw Lem's "The Mask" / N. Katherine Hayles.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005054751
ISBN0231137842 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231137843

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HB701 .A26 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold