... a few kilometers away from where he ended his life. 1 aesthetics China demolition photography precarity slum speculation Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 tong.lam@utoronto.ca Figure 3 Tong Lam, untitled (2015), from the series Where There Is No Room...

.... Overlapping class groups appropriate disparate meanings of the rural and the urban to secure their profit-seeking interests or to claim rightful inclusion in state-led projects of economic development. Real estate developers, architects, urban planners, and policy makers, for instance, speculate on the market...

... of their land. Urban development fortifies spaces of lux- ury against growing slums, hiding from view the people who are excluded from this newly vibrant economy (Harms 2016). The remaining articles take us through these consequences...

... 82 , no. 2 : 309 – 32 . Muniesa Fabian , Millo Yuval , and Callon Michel . 2007 . “ An Introduction to Market Devices .” Sociological Review 55 , no. 2 : 1 – 12 . Nam Sylvia . 2017 . “ Urban Speculation, Economic Openness, and Market Experiments .” positions...

... is reconsidered. Finally, the article ends with two takes on the framing of piratical activities as “parasitical.” First, it argues that the “third” of Third Cinema now lives on in these “Southern” piratical practices. Second, in a more speculative vein, it argues for a development of the parasitical...

... market.6 This shift from Fordism to flexible accumulation was accompanied by significant spatial changes. Beginning in the mid-­1990s, central Mumbai witnessed a large-­scale outmigration of ex – textile workers and slum dwellers to north...

... following reuni cation, northern cadres were granted valuable real estate in Ho Chi Minh City that had been con scated from the former regime as well as from “bankers, war contractors, ex- imperialists, investors, and speculators.”13 More recently...

..., therefore, a special site of cultural production in modern China. “In the popular May Fourth parlance,” Leo Ou-fan Lee recently speculates, “to be ‘modern’ means above all to be ‘new5 Indeed, from the 1910s to the I~~OS, “modern women...

... monopoly land con- trol to turn a handsome profit through the practice of “fair” public auc- tions. In the meantime, the speculations of capitalist profiteers siphoned off much of the most desirable property. The end result of this laissez...

... shitamachi accidentally runs into the Tamanoi area of Mukjima, where many geisha houses, low-­life bars, and “private prostitutes” had progressively moved to in the wake of the slum-­clearance movement and the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923.38...

... for the poor and order the best red wine for dinner, while [he] only drinks Diet Coke”; and how he sneers at his U.S. peers “who proclaim themselves to be anticapitalism leftists but speculate in the stock market.”9 Speaking to the Chinese media, Žižek...

... of Lee’s aging grandmother who longs to see her son before her death.106 As to the reasons for North Korea’s refusal to grant her family and other Korean Americans guest visas, Lee speculates, “It seemed that North Korea had become upset...

... for interrogating those sources—tends to become an obstacle in the work of explaining the material. Explanation requires a different set of methods: either the elaborate statistical correlation of stylized reifications in which the social sciences trade, or the methods descending from speculative philosophy...

... of the largest estates were conceded, the trend generally benefited a category of entrepreneurial Vietnamese notables, well prepared to take advantage of these new opportunities. In the meantime, the rise of a speculative rice economy driven by capital...

...- bors in his body; his writings become nothing more than a pathological symptom. Bumpei and Ginnosuke, two of Ushimatsu’s teaching colleagues, speculate on how the eta could have produced a figure such as Rentaro and Bourdaghs I Disease of Nationalism...