"The text of this book originally was published, without the essay by Melissa W. Wright or the index, as vol. 12, no. 2 of Public culture. ... Wright's essay originally appeared in vol. 11, no. 3 ... , pages 453-474"--P.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff -- Millennial Transitions / Irene Stengs, Hylton White, Caitrin Lynch, and Jeffrey A. Zimmermann -- Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism’s Nature / Fernando Coronil -- Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society / Michael Storper -- The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoreas / Melissa W. Wright -- Freeway to China (Version 2, for Liverpool) / Allan Sekula -- Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging / Peter Geschiere and Francis Myamnjoh -- Millennial Coal Face / Luiz Paulo Lima, Scott Bradwell, and Seamus Walsh -- Modernity’s Media and the End of Mediumship? On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand / Rosalind C. Morris -- ?Living at the Edge: Religion, Capitalism, and the End of the Nation-State in Taiwan / Robert P. Weller -- Millenniums Past, Cuba’s Future? / Paul Ryer -- ?Consuming Geist: Popontology and the Spirit of Capital in Indigenous Australia / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils / David Harvey