Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition

by J Paul Narkunas and J. Paul Narkunas John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Reified Life addresses the most pressing political question of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus or expendable, human and otherwise. The 2008 economic crisis solidified the dominion of neoliberal and financial capital to organize human societies much to the detriment of the world's populations. Reified Life theorizes the dangerous social implications of a posthuman future,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823280306
• ISBN13: 9780823280308
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"