Reified Life Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition

Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0823280306 | 337 Pages | PDF (True) | 2 MB
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, whereby human agency is secondary to algorithmic processes, digital protocols, speculative financial instruments, and nonhuman market and technological forces.