The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and speculation as aesthetic and political-economic strategies in factual and fictional discourses emerging at the North American Pacific Rim within a decade around 2000. Its exemplary close readings in particular focus on three fictional texts (Kathryn Bigelow's Hollywood film (S1(BStrange Days(S0(B, 1995, Karen T.
Yamashita's novel (S1(BTropic of Orange(S0(B, 1997, and Larissa Lai's novel (S1(BSalt Fish Girl(S0(B, 2002) whose intricate aesthetics pass perceptive critique on concurrent political-economic discourses and their subtle reconfiguration of race, class, and gender. The speculative near-future scenarios projected by these artifacts expose the rise of risk as a new rationality of governance. At the same time they illustrate neoliberal speculation as a new paradigm of subject formation at a hyper-capitalist, millennial Pacific Rim.
| ISBN: | 9783837624168 |
| Publication date: | 15th December 2013 |
| Author: | Susanne Wegener |
| Publisher: | Transcript an imprint of transcript Verlag |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 312 pages |
| Series: | American Culture Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Cultural studies |
The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and speculation as aesthetic and political-economic strategies in factual and fictional discourses emerging at the North American Pacific Rim within a decade around 2000.
Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Cultural studies
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Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems was written by Susanne Wegener and published by Transcript an imprint of transcript Verlag
Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems has 312 pages
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