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Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North-American Pacific Rim

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  • "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."

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  • "Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North-American Pacific Rim"
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  • "Restless subjects in rigid systems risk and speculation in millennial fictions of the North-American Pacific Rim"
  • "Restless subjects in rigid systems : risk and speculation in millennial fictions of the North American Pacific Rim"
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  • "Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North American Pacific Rim"

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