Format:
1 Online Ressource (311 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783839424162
Series Statement:
American culture studies volume 7
Content:
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 »Strange Days«, 1995, Karen T. Yamashita's novel »Tropic of Orange«, 1997, and Larissa Lai's novel »Salt Fish Girl«, 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.
Content:
Long description: 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 »Strange Days«, 1995, Karen T. Yamashita´s novel »Tropic of Orange«, 1997, and Larissa Lai´s novel »Salt Fish Girl«, 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837624168
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wegener, Susanne Restless subjects in rigid systems Bielefeld : transcript, 2014 ISBN 3837624161
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837624168
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Strange days
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Yamashita, Karen Tei 1951- Tropic of orange
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Lai, Larissa 1967- Salt fish girl
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