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Book SynopsisThe global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency.
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Living on Borrowed Times offer deep insights into post-modern life. Specifically, it exposes the essential social and philosophical changes that lie at the heart of the conditions that led to the global financial crisis ... the ideas in these books are fascinating."
Satyajit Das, WillmotTable of ContentsIntroduction by Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo 1
Part One 13
Conversation I
The credit crunch: an outcome of the Bank's failure, or a fruit of its outstanding success? Capitalism is not dead 15
Conversation II
The welfare state in the age of economic globalization: the last remaining vestiges of Bentham's Panopticon. Policing or helping the poor? 34
Conversation III
This thing called 'the state': revisiting democracy, sovereignty and human rights 45
Part Two 97
Conversation IV
Modernity, postmodernity and genocide: from decimation and annexation to 'collateral damage' 99
Conversation V
Population, production and re-production of human waste: from contingency and indeterminacy to the inexorability of biotechnology (beyond Wall Street) 108
Conversation VI
Secular fundamentalism versus religious fundamentalism: the race of dogmas or the battle for power in the twenty-first century 127
Conversation VII
DNA inscription: a new grammatology for a new economy. From homines mortales to DIY 'post-humans' in the advent of genetocracy 141
Conversation VIII
Utopia, love, or the lost generation 157
Notes 172
Index 191
