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In Remaindered Life Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war. Tracking how contemporary capitalist accumulation depends on producing life-times of disposability, Tadiar focuses on what she terms remaindered life-practices of living that exceed the distinction between life worth living and life worth expending. Through this heuristic, Tadiar reinterprets the global significance and genealogy of the surplus life-making practices of migrant domestic and service workers, refugees fleeing wars and environmental disasters, criminalized communities, urban slum dwellers, and dispossessed Indigenous people. She also examines artists and filmmakers in the Global South who render forms of various living in the midst of disposability. Retelling the story of globalization from the side of those who reach beyond dominant protocols of living, Tadiar demonstrates how attending to remaindered life can open up another horizon of possibility for a radical remaking of our present global mode of life.
Sommario
Preface: What This Book Is About ix
Acknowledgments xix
Part I: In a Time of War
1. The War to Be Human: Value 3
2. A Global Enterprise: Waste 23
3. Becoming-Human in a Time of War: Remainder 49
Interregnum 73
Part II: Life-Times
4. Of Labor and Fate Playing 87
5. Of Disposability 109
6. Of Survival 123
Part III: Globopolis
7. City Everywhere 141
Excursus 173
Part IV: Dead Exchanges
8. Powers of Defending Freedom 199
9. Powers of Expending Life 229
10. Live Borrowings, Living Connections 257
Thresholds 279
Part V: By the Waysides
11. Bypass and Spendor 301
12. And Then Some 329
Notes 335
Bibliography 387
Index 411
Info autore
Neferti X. M. Tadiar is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, author of
Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press, and
Fantasy-Production: Sexual Economies and Other Philippine Consequences for the New World Order.
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Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new conceptual vocabulary and framework for rethinking the dynamics of a global capitalism maintained through permanent imperial war.
