Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood

Edited by Bill Maurer and Gabriele Schwab

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March, 2006
Cloth, 186 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13784-3
$50.00 / £34.50

Acknowledgments

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

Related Subjects

• Cultural Studies
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Critical Theory Institute Book

About the Author

Bill Maurer is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of three books, including Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason.Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and faculty associate in anthropology. She is the author of four books, including Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction and The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language.

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