Reified life : speculative capital and the ahuman condition / J. Paul Narkunas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: humanisms, posthumanisms, and their discontents -- Part I. Instrumentalizing life -- Market humans: Homo oeconomicus, entrepreneurs, and neoliberal beings of risk -- Utilitarian humanism: "we other humans" regulated by culture -- The hedge fund of reality: ontology and financial derivatives -- Part II. Human rights and the political reformations of the market human -- Human rights and states of emergency: humanitarians and governmentality -- Translating rights: the international criminal court, translation, and the human status -- Part III. Speculative fictions: political aesthetics adrift in speculative capital flows -- Speculative fictions and other cartographies of life -- Between words, numbers, and things: transgenics and other objects of life in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy -- Reification of the human: global organ harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go -- Conclusion. Ahumans: a guide to nonmarket living.