Introduction : dealing in futures -- Are you paranoid enough? Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and the politics of risk and speculation -- Live on the edge I say : edgework, risk, and literary form in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange -- Monstrous...
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Introduction : dealing in futures -- Are you paranoid enough? Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and the politics of risk and speculation -- Live on the edge I say : edgework, risk, and literary form in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange -- Monstrous politics : epistemological empowerment, natural science, and new territories of empire in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl -- Towards a poetics of risk and speculation 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 <U+00bb>Strange Days±, 1995, Karen T. Yamashita's novel <U+00bb>Tropic of Orange±, 1997, and Larissa Lai's novel <U+00bb>Salt Fish Girl±, 2002) whose intricate aesthetics pass