{"product_id":"accelerating-possession-9780231137843","title":"Accelerating Possession","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 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","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358991352151,"sku":"9780231137843","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231137843.jpg?v=1754123130","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/accelerating-possession-9780231137843","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}