Reified life: speculative capital and the ahuman condition

'Reified Life' addresses the most pressing political question of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus or expendable, human and otherwise.

The 2008 economic crisis solidified the dominion of neoliberal and financial capital to organise human societies much to the detriment of the world's populations. 'Reified Life' theorises the dangerous social implications of a posthuman future, whereby human agency is secondary to algorithmic processes, digital protocols, speculative financial instruments, and nonhuman market and technological forces.