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Accelerating Possession
. Ed(S): Maurer, Bill; Schwab, Gabriele
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Description for Accelerating Possession
Written 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. Editor(s): Maurer, Bill; Schwab, Gabriele. Series: Critical Theory Institute Book. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 635.
Accelerating Possession is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines how recent economic movements have revolutionized the relationship between property and personhood. These prominent scholars argue that in our present age, globalization, rampant privatization, and biotechnology have irrevocably changed traditional ideas of property and the self. Definitions of property no longer correspond to the configurations of the person who owns or is subjected to property. Self and ownership have a whole new arithmetic.In these essays, privatization is understood as an array of interconnected processes and relationships through which the capitalist marketplace controls, among other things, the political rights, social membership, ... Read more
Accelerating Possession is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines how recent economic movements have revolutionized the relationship between property and personhood. These prominent scholars argue that in our present age, globalization, rampant privatization, and biotechnology have irrevocably changed traditional ideas of property and the self. Definitions of property no longer correspond to the configurations of the person who owns or is subjected to property. Self and ownership have a whole new arithmetic.In these essays, privatization is understood as an array of interconnected processes and relationships through which the capitalist marketplace controls, among other things, the political rights, social membership, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
186
Condition
New
Series
Critical Theory Institute Book
Number of Pages
186
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137843
SKU
V9780231137843
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About . Ed(S): Maurer, Bill; Schwab, Gabriele
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Accelerating Possession
"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"