Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood (Hardcover)

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