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Book SynopsisWritten by prominent scholars, this title explores the relationship between property and personhood. It considers a range of topics, including: the establishment of the rule of property in US-occupied Iraq; the work of John Locke; and reflections on property and personhood in the art of Jenny Holzer and the novels of Stanislaw Lem.
Trade Review"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"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
