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... Chapter 1 explains the nature of speculative, financialized, multinational pharmaceutical capital. It focuses primarily on the logics that drive the Euro-American, R&D-driven pharmaceutical industry, to argue how an industry that is captured by capital is one that, structurally...

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... the performance of this speculative capital produces the context in which many Filipino families are now confronting the possibility of traveling back to the Philippines and staying there permanently. Filipino Americans real estate transnationalism speculative economy ...

... Tsing’s notion of an “economy of appearances,” particularly with regard to how the aspirations of Filipinos living abroad have created a source of both fictional and material capital to subsidize property developments in the Philippines. It explains how the performance of this speculative capital produces...

... and Maya rebels repurposed liberal conceptions of freedom; that such repurposing involves the imaginative remaking of racial capitalism’s articulations of blackness and indigeneity with liberalism. The introduction makes a case for “overreading” documents that seem merely descriptive for their speculative...

... Arc III traces the rise of “invest in a girl” campaigns in the 1990s and the gendering of human capital approaches to the value of life. It shows how the thick archive of postcolonial data produced by family planning was reworked to calculate that educating girls was more beneficial to gdp than...

... Track 8.0 speculates about R&B’s relationship to politics with a capital P , since the genre is now often positioned as completely lacking political vision. As the two tracks amplify, this is neither right nor OK, seeing that (a) current R&B artists have used their recordings and music...

..., and disposed of in the transnational circuits of advanced technology and neoliberal capitalism. The epilogue also notes this book’s performative-speculative writing on prosthetic memories and the reparative efforts to include affective ties among what appear to be problematic relations and affinities...

... to capital’s speculation, centered on private wealth rather than on public human needs. Exploring the discontinuities in new construction that disoriented and reoriented leisurely strolls (wandering) through the city, the author reflects on the feelings and experiences of perverse space that bring...

... incursion aimed at capitalizing on socialism’s remains. At the same time, this chapter investigates how Western technological imaginaries collapse communism and fascism together, promising salvation through Siliconization. This anticommunist plot celebrates the Orientalist figment of the Eastern European...

... to capitalize on socialist remains. In presenting the book’s twin concepts of racial technocapitalism and Silicon Valley imperialism, this introduction helps articulate the modes through which anticommunism tethers presocialist and postsocialist temporalities in attempting to displace possibilities...

... The Coda reviews how nineteenth-century black settlers in Liberia and Maya rebels in Yucatán left documents that do not only tell us who-did-what-where-when-and-why about the colonization of Liberia and the Caste War but also reflect speculatively on the meaning of freedom during...

... Chapter 4 reads a 1935 Colombian text by statesman Manuel Roca Castellanos, 10 luces sobre el futuro (10 Lights over the Future) —an expression of geographical speculation in the form of a treatise arguing for the consolidation and mapping of Colombia’s political-geographic terrain...

... efforts to repurpose the historical legacy of colonialism and cast the future of liberal capitalist development in Yucatán. The chapter then shows how Creoles drew on casta ’s nimble globality to articulate race, liberalism, and capitalism in the pages of a lively but unruly periodical culture...

...“Now Being”<subtitle>Slavery, Speculation, and the Measure of Our Time</subtitle> ...

... speculatively appropriate and repurpose the Creoles’ articulation of race, liberalism, and capitalism discussed in the previous chapter, offering an effective and ongoing reflection upon and practice of libertad . This practice offered a political poiesis —an imaginative remaking of living free on both...

... leading to a forest carbon boom in the state. Elucidating green capitalism, the chapter traces how the materiality of forest carbon and other new environmental commodities can militate for stories of social inclusion and stability that contrast with the stories often told about extractive frontiers. Yet...