Somehow people continue to imagine a world of justice against the odds of a deck that has been stacked against them. In her urgent and perceptive book, Life in and against the Odds, Hoechst focuses on the particular circumstances and conditions of different phases of speculative expansion in the United States. She traces the roots of the nation-state to nineteenth-century land markets and slave exchanges. Hoechst also chronicles how these racial foundations extend through corporate capitalism from the 1920s and ´30s to the present era of financialized capitalism and the recent housing bubble.
Life in and against the Odds identifies where and how speculative nationalism creates roadblocks to freedom. Hoechst retells the history of the United States with a perspective on how human lives are made, destroyed, reconfigured, and claimed under the systemic violence of a nation that is rooted in the racializing futurity of speculative capitalism.
Автор: Michel Feher Название: Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age ISBN: 1942130120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942130123 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 2649.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation--among companies, governments, and individuals--generated by financialization.
The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this book, in clear and compelling prose, Michel Feher explains the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization.
That firms, states, and people depend more on their ratings than on the product of their activities also changes how capitalism is resisted. For activists, the focus of grievances shifts from the extraction of profit to the conditions under which financial institutions allocate credit. While the exploitation of employees by their employers has hardly been curbed, the power of investors to select investees--to decide who and what is deemed creditworthy--has become a new site of social struggle. Above all, Feher articulates the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency.
Автор: Anderson Laura K., McDaniel Ryan J. Название: Sojourn: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction ISBN: 0991487710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991487714 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Dawson Julie Ann Название: Best Indie Speculative Fiction ISBN: 1732248974 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781732248977 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2206.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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An annual showcase of some of the best speculative fiction produced by the small press/independent publishing community. Volume One features stories by Vonnie Winslow Crist, Theresa Braun, Joseph Aitken, Eric Lewis, Jason Constantine Ford, Lillian Csernica, Dennis Mombauer, Gustavo Bondoni, J.M. Williams, Melvin Litton, Robert Allen Lupton, Russell Hemmell, Alex Shvartsman, Kelly A. Harmon, Rhoads Brazos, Jonathan Shipley, and C.L. Raven.
Автор: Bellucci, Francesco Название: Peirce`s Speculative Grammar ISBN: 0367887037 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367887032 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce`s theory of speculative grammar. It will be of interest to academic specialists working on Peirce, the history of American philosophy and pragmatism, the philosophy of language, the history of logic, and semiotics.
Автор: Chance Maia, Southard Janine a., Oak Raven Название: Joy to the Worlds: Mysterious Speculative Fiction for the Holidays ISBN: 0990815765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990815761 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1837.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.
Автор: Jones Название: Medicine and Ethics in Black Women`s Speculative Fiction ISBN: 1137520604 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137520609 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender.
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