Frontmatter -- contents -- acknowledgments -- introduction. Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and Their Discontents -- part I. Instrumentalizing Life -- chapter 1. Market Humans -- chapter 2. Utilitarian Humanism "We Other Humans" Regulated by Culture -- chapter 3. The Hedge Fund of Reality -- part II. Human Rights and the Political Reformations of the Market Human -- chapter 4. Human Rights and States of Emergency -- chapter 5. Translating Rights -- part III. Speculative Fictions: Political Aesthetics Adrift in Speculative Capital Flows -- chapter 6. Speculative Fictions and Other Cartographies of Life -- chapter 7. Between Words, Numbers, and Things Transgenics and Other Objects of Life in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy -- chapter 8. Reification of the Human -- conclusion. Ahumans: A Guide to Nonmarket Living -- Notes -- Index