Introduction: humanisms, posthumanisms, and their discontents
Part I. Instrumentalizing life
Market humans: Homo oeconomicus, entrepreneurs, and neoliberal beings of risk
Utilitarian humanism: "we other humans" regulated by culture
The hedge fund of reality: ontology and financial derivatives
Part II. Human rights and the political reformations of the market human
Human rights and states of emergency: humanitarians and governmentality
Translating rights: the international criminal court, translation, and the human status
Part III. Speculative fictions: political aesthetics adrift in speculative capital flows
Speculative fictions and other cartographies of life
Between words, numbers, and things: transgenics and other objects of life in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy
Reification of the human: global organ harvesting and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go
Conclusion. Ahumans: a guide to nonmarket living.