Podcast appearances and mentions of Bill Maurer

In which I end my series on David Graeber's Debt, apologize for mistakes, and offer some hope for a new world in which we have more money and less monetarism.Thank you to all of the listeners to this series, and my wonderful lineup of guests: Dirk Ehnts, Eleanor Janega, Cory Doctorow, Bill Maurer, Henry Farrell, James K. Galbraith, Fuad Musallam, Clif Mark, Luke Kemp, John Weisweiler, Chris Isett, and Yanis Varoufakis.The whole series can be found here: https://www.everydayanarchism.com/david-graebers-debt/

For the third episode of Debt Discussions, the anthropologist Bill Maurer joins me to talk about Chapter 3 of Debt, Primordial Debts. Bill and I talk about the myth of primordial debt, where it fits in the anarchism vs. social democracy debate, and if the anthropological parables in the book fit Graeber's claims. We also talk about the strengths and flaws of Graeber's approach, especially the way that his work embraces grand narratives while critiquing the grand narrative tradition.Bill wrote the conclusion for the new book As If Already Free: Anthropology and Activism After David Graeber

Continuing my series on Graeber's Debt, this episode looks at chapter 3, which introduces the other big myth which Graeber says underpins our modern imaginary. Primordial Debt, I argue, is the left-wing counterpart to the myth of barter, and Graeber critiques it less harshly but just as fully.Join me later this month for a conversation with the anthropologist Bill Maurer about this chapter, the myth of primordial debt, and the anthropological nature of Graeber's claims.

Dean of UCI's School of Social Sciences for the past decade, anthropology professor Bill Maurer recently agreed to five more years at the helm of the school with the largest percentage of undergraduates majoring in their departments. In this UCI Podcast, Maurer describes how he morphed from reluctant leader to a third term as dean, reflects on his first decade in the role and looks ahead to what's next as the School of Social Sciences continues its mission to “create positive change and improve the human condition.” Maurer also shares why he was drawn to anthropology and offers a quick Cryptocurrency 101 lesson, including the potential benefits and drawbacks of digital currency. This episode of the UCI Podcast was recorded in the podcast studio in the ANTrepreneur Center. Music for this episode of the UCI Podcast, titled “Wide Awake,” provided by The 126ers via the Audio Library in YouTube Studio.

Seattle, like many cities, is experiencing a housing shortage—or what some city leaders call a “crisis.” But in an attempt to address it, Seattle has only made matters worse. In 2019, the city created the Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) Program, which places unique burdens on anyone building in certain zones throughout the city. In so doing, the city's attempt to make housing more affordable has done just the opposite: it has made it more expensive to build affordable housing. We sit down with Bill Maurer from the Institute for Justice and how they have filed suit againt the city to stop this coercion of money from homeowners. We dive into what the case is all about. You can find more about them and the court papers: https://ij.org/case/seattle-housing-affordability/We then dive into the coolest and STRANGEST stuff at the Consumer Electronics Show last week in Las Vegas! Thanks for listening to Around the house if you want to hear more please subscribe so you get notified of the latest episode as it posts at https://around-the-house-with-e.captivate.fm/listenIf you want to buy Eric G a beer or coffee you can support the show here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ATHERICGWe love comments and we would love reviews on how this information has helped you on your house! Thanks for listening! For more information about the show head to https://aroundthehouseonline.com/ We have moved the Pro Insider Special on Thursday to its new feed. It will no longer be on this page. You can find it and subscribe right here: https://around-the-house-pro-insider.captivate.fm/ Information given on the Around the House Show should not be considered construction or design advice for your specific project, nor is it intended to replace consulting at your home or jobsite by a building professional. The views and opinions expressed by those interviewed on the podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Around the House Show. Mentioned in this episode:Buy Me A Coffee, Beer, or Drink

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When banks first started thousands of years ago, they were known as places to borrow money, not to keep your own money safe. Through loans, they'd provide funding to farmers or traders to help them with a project — like building a fence or traveling to another country. Borrowers often had to leave something valuable with the bank until they paid off the loan. To keep all that valuable stuff safe, banks became supersecure. That made them great places for everyday folks to deposit their money. This week, we'll learn about the history of banks and how they work today and why they don't work for all of us. Our old friend Bill Maurer will help us sort it all out, while Jed and Bridget see if they have what it takes to run their own bank. Don't forget to send us your questions about money at Marketplace.org/million!

When banks first started thousands of years ago, they were known as places to borrow money, not to keep your own money safe. Through loans, they'd provide funding to farmers or traders to help them with a project — like building a fence or traveling to another country. Borrowers often had to leave something valuable with the bank until they paid off the loan. To keep all that valuable stuff safe, banks became supersecure. That made them great places for everyday folks to deposit their money. This week, we'll learn about the history of banks and how they work today and why they don't work for all of us. Our old friend Bill Maurer will help us sort it all out, while Jed and Bridget see if they have what it takes to run their own bank. Don't forget to send us your questions about money at Marketplace.org/million!

I couldn't believe it either. In Seattle they have a (yes this is what they call it) "Housing Affordability" law that forces homeowners to pay this fee on a building permit. We will talk with the Institute for Justice about how they are trying to help out the homeowners by fighting back on this expensive fee for a remodel. A special thanks to Bill Maurer for coming on the show today. For more information about this and the Institute for Justice head to : https://ij.org/press-release/seattle-housing-affordability-law-forces-hard-working-homeowners-to-pay-ransom-for-building-permit-now-two-residents-are-fighting-back/ (https://ij.org/press-release/seattle-housing-affordability-law-forces-hard-working-homeowners-to-pay-ransom-for-building-permit-now-two-residents-are-fighting-back/) We will also be talking about 8 everyday things that are dirtier than a toilet....This might make you clean a few things just a little more around your house. All that and so much more on this weeks Around the House with Eric G Thanks for listening to Around the house if you want to hear more please subscribe so you get notified of the latest episode as it posts. We love comments to we would love reviews on how this information has helped you on your house! Thanks for listening! For more information about the show head to https://aroundthehouseonline.com/ (https://aroundthehouseonline.com/)

I couldn't believe it either. In Seattle they have a (yes this is what they call it) "Housing Affordability" law that forces homeowners to pay this fee on a building permit. We will talk with the Institute for Justice about how they are trying to help out the homeowners by fighting back on this expensive fee for a remodel. A special thanks to Bill Maurer for coming on the show today. For more information about this and the Institute for Justice head to : https://ij.org/press-release/seattle-housing-affordability-law-forces-hard-working-homeowners-to-pay-ransom-for-building-permit-now-two-residents-are-fighting-back/ We will also be talking about 8 everyday things that are dirtier than a toilet....This might make you clean a few things just a little more around your house. All that and so much more on this weeks Around the House with Eric G Thanks for listening to Around the house if you want to hear more please subscribe so you get notified of the latest episode as it posts. We love comments to we would love reviews on how this information has helped you on your house! Thanks for listening! For more information about the show head to https://aroundthehouseonline.com/ See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

With the COVID-19 cases spiking and online shopping following, the argument for ending physical money has come up again in the public conversation. But, a cashless existence is not our reality yet.  Bill Maurer is dean of University of California, Irvine's School of Social Sciences, a professor of anthropology and director of the campus’s Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. He joined the show to examine why the conversation about the end of physical cash is probably premature, even during the pandemic.

Brigham Daniels of Brigham Young Univ and Matt Letourneau of the US Chamber of Commerce on the changes to NEPA. Bill Maurer of Univ of California Irvine on a cashless society. Jessica Preece of Brigham Young Univ on women being silenced at work. Dan Tepfer on performing music from a distance. Lumen Mulligan of Univ of Kansas on qualified immunity. Jason Chambers of Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on racist marketing.

What Moved Markets This Week (WMMTW) is a panel discussion with Seeking Alpha editors. Watch video highlights of this episode on Seeking Alpha. Hosted by Nathaniel E. Baker, Contributing Editor, and featuring: Aaron Task, VP Contributor Content and co-host Seeking Alpha's Alpha Trader podcast; Brad Olesen, VP News; Stephen Alpher, Managing Editor News, co-host Alpha Trader. Big Picture (0:52) The "risk on" appetite from Monday faded even as many banks beat estimates with their second quarter earnings. Shares of large-cap technology companies fell, with the NASDAQ (QQQ) underperforming other indexes for the first time in months. The catalyst appears to have been an announcement by California on Tuesday to rollback reopenings due to a surge in new coronavirus cases. Winners and Losers (3:25) High-multiple tech names led the selloff. Salesforce.com (CRM) was a big loser, along with Paycom (PAYC), Fortinet (FTNT), Adobe (ADBE), and Paypal (PYPL). Smallcaps gained, with the iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) outpacing the S&P 500. Financials performed well on the back of bank earnings (6:33), with the SPDR S&P Bank Index ETF (KBE) adding 9%. Goldman Sachs (GS), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and Morgan Stanley (MS) rallied after positive earnings reports. Morgan Stanley moved into positive territory for the year off of the rally. But not all banks did well. Wells Fargo (WFC) announced it would cut its dividend by 80% and build up loss reserves. But WFC shares were still up 5% this week after an upgrade from Evercore ISI. Some of Our Favorite Coverage This Week (10:02) Brad: Tesla (TSLA) coverage, especially "Musk: 'Wow' on Tesla's price target boost from Piper"; Stephen and Nat: A Vaccine Is Coming: Time To Sell Tech Stocks At Bubble Valuations, And Buy Recovery/Value Names, by Thomas Lott; Aaron: The Coming Stock Market Crash - Smart Money Is Already Ringing The Death Bell (the most popular story on Seeking Alpha this week), by The European View; Aaron: AT&T's Day Of Reckoning Is Coming, by Daniel Jones; Aaron: AT&T: Those Who Do Not Learn From History Are Doomed To Repeat It, by Mauro Solis; Aaron: Netflix: Buy The Earnings Dip, by Bill Maurer. Last Word (18:46) The disconnect between markets and the economy: is it really that unusual? Is the market being unrealistically optimistic about a vaccine for COVID-19? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a public health crisis, timely, reliable and trustworthy information is critical to safeguarding people’s health and well-being. Unfortunately, the widespread adoption of digital media and information technologies today has made it easier and faster to produce, disseminate, and be exposed to false or manipulated content, from simple misinformation to conspiracy theories to hate speech. Our research fellow for the center of excellence for emerging technology, Bill Maurer of UC-Irvine has professed through his work with us that credit unions have a great role to play in lessening consumer anxieties by reassuring their members, fighting to protect their communities, and making wise decisions about our future. Bill returns to another episode of our podcast with Taylor and I, in which we are most fortunate to be joined by Dr. Joan Donovan -- Director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. In this episode, we discuss what credit unions can do to combat the spread of disinformation and misinformation, and sustain the level of trust they’ve built with their communities and their members. Plus, we discuss some common scams that we’re seeing and how to protect against them. We talk about some tangible ways credit unions can deal with the spread of misinformation if it is happening on their digital and social platforms. Find out why Joan says local and redundant information is so valuable right now. And stick around for recommended trusted sources of information from our experts -- BONUS: stay till the very very end for a special coronavirus song from Bill. It’s no lie. Resources: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200202-sitrep-13-ncov-v3.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/technology/coronavirus-misinformation-social-media.html https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30461-X/fulltext https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615184/the-coronavirus-is-the-first-true-social-media-infodemic/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615368/facebook-twitter-social-media-infodemic-misinformation/ https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-misinformation-spreads-on-facebook-watchdog-says-11587436159 https://www.cip.uw.edu/ https://filene.org/assets/images-layout/COVID-19-Financial-Scams-UCIrvine.pdf

It’s a new year and there are plenty of broken resolutions to go around. One common resolution is getting your finances in order. In this lab, Titi and Zakiya discuss some of the latest “fintech” available to help you achieve your 2020 financial goals. Guest: Dr. Bill Maurer.

This one is for all of you that love stories about money…where it came from, where it’s going, how it’s going to get there and how our lives will always be impacted by the ways we use physical and digital currencies. Join us on this trip with Bill Maurer -- Filene Fellow for our Center of Excellence on Emerging Technology and Dean and Professor at the University of California Irvine. Literally, it’s a trip -- we recorded this on the road from Chicago to our office in Madison. What you’re about to hear is a rare telling of stories and wide-ranging experiences from someone at the top of their field academically and in real-world application. Bill and I talk about how he once helped an overly enthusiastic computer chip manufacturer better understand the future of money. We talk about the strategies at play with digital payment providers and I got his initial thoughts on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency. Bill shares a fascinating story about the time when he had a winding and metaphysical conversation with Dee Hock, the founder of Visa, and also that one time when he “quote” “sat around in a room with bagels” redesigning the united states’ currency with the US treasury secretary. Watch for related research coming from our Emerging Technology Center from Bill in the near future. And be sure you’re booked to come to Filene’s big.bright.minds annual event on Nov 19 -20 in Durham to continue gathering insights on this plus many more issues impacting the industry every day. Visit filene.org/events to register.

Ten autumns ago came two watershed moments in the history of money. In September 2008, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered a financial meltdown from which the world has yet to fully recover. The following month, someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto introduced BitCoin, the first cryptocurrency. Before our eyes, the very architecture of money was evolving — potentially changing the world in the process. In this hour, On the Media looks at the story of money, from its uncertain origins to its digital reinvention in the form of cryptocurrency. 1. The life and work of JSG Boggs, the artist who created hand-drawn replicas of currency that he used to buy goods and services. With Lawrence Weschler and MIT's Neha Narula [@neha]. Listen. 2. A brief history of money with UC Irvine's Bill Maurer and Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] from Brown University. Listen.  3. How cryptocurrency could shape the future of money, with MIT's Neha Narula [@neha], New York Times' Nathaniel Popper [@nathanielpopper], Vinay Gupta [@leashless] of Mattereum, Brown University's Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] and artist Kevin Abosch [@kevinabosch]. Listen. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

Ten autumns ago came two watershed moments in the history of money. In September 2008, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered a financial meltdown from which the world has yet to fully recover. The following month, someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto introduced BitCoin, the first cryptocurrency. Before our eyes, the very architecture of money was evolving — potentially changing the world in the process. In this hour, On the Media looks at the story of money, from its uncertain origins to its digital reinvention in the form of cryptocurrency. 1. The life and work of JSG Boggs, the artist who created hand-drawn replicas of currency that he used to buy goods and services. With Lawrence Weschler and MIT's Neha Narula [@neha]. Listen. 2. A brief history of money with UC Irvine's Bill Maurer and Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] from Brown University. Listen.  3. How cryptocurrency could shape the future of money, with MIT's Neha Narula [@neha], New York Times' Nathaniel Popper [@nathanielpopper], Vinay Gupta [@leashless] of Mattereum, Brown University's Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] and artist Kevin Abosch [@kevinabosch]. Listen.

Data about us as individuals is usually conceived of as something gathered about us, whether siphoned from our Facebook or requested by bureaucrats. But data collected and displayed by the tracking applications on our iPhones and Fitbits is material we collect by ourselves and for ourselves. Well, maybe, says sociologist Gina Neff, who with Dawn Nafus (a senior research scientist at Intel Labs) wrote the recent book, Self-Tracking. In this Social Science Bites podcast, Neff tells interview David Edmonds that such information – your information -- is widely available to the device or software maker. Now combine that with social network data – and many apps essentially require you connect those dots – and what results is an unintentionally rich portrait of the user.  And that digital you, your doppelgänger, gets shared widely, whether you want it to or even if it’s an accurate depiction, at times making the difference in decisions of whether you worthy of that job or ought to be insured. Neff said she thinks of tracking devices as a sort of “bait and switch,” since their outputs aren’t wholly your own. As anthropologist Bill Maurer has said, data doesn’t have ownership so much as having parents. But Neff doesn’t approach smart devices as a Luddite or even that much of an alarmist; she bought first-generation Fitbit when they were brand new and virtually unknown (all of five years ago!). She approaches them as a sociologist, “looking at the practices of people who use digital devices to monitor, map and measure different aspects of their life.” Many people with and without activity trackers feel they already track their lives – through a tally they keep in their head. Think of the item of clothing – say those ‘skinny jeans’ - you wear when you feel you’re particularly slim. “One of the things that motivated us in thinking about the book were these qualitative measures that help people understand their lives and give them a sense of tracking that is more empowering in some ways.” And one of the findings is that a low-common-denominator approach to the devices can prevent people from really taking control, or customizing the collection, of their own data. “For too many people,” Neff says, “they can’t access and control their own data on the devices in order to begin to frame the next question.” Her findings on smart devices surprised her several times. For example, she explains, many of today’s digital artifacts are anchored in much older sociological practices. She cites Lee Humprheys’ examinations of how Twitter use lines up with how diaries were used in the 19th century: “Lo and behold, some of those same short entries – ‘Had breakfast late,’ ‘It rained today’ – that we think of as disposable and part of the digital era really are much older.” Neff was also taken aback at who the audience is for self-tracking. “I thought I was going to study just these kind of geeky, West Coast, Silicon Valley, male types who wanted to engineer everything about their life. And boy, was I wrong.” Users are much more diverse, and often less self-absorbed; some people are using the devices to stay on top of medical concerns, and other just want to be more productive in everyday life. And their devotion can be ephemeral – Neff said studies find 60 percent of activity trackers get disused within six months. Neff is an associate professor, senior research fellow, program director of the DPhil in information, communication and the social sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute. Self-Tracking, which reviewer Simon Head at The New York Review of Books described as “easily the best book I’ve come across on the subject,” is her third book. Earlier volumes were 2012’s Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries, which won the 2013 American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies Best Book Award, and 2015’s Surviving the New Economy (with John Amman and Tris Carpenter).

Ten autumns ago came two watershed moments in the history of money. In September 2008, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered a financial meltdown from which the world has yet to fully recover. The following month, someone using the name Satoshi Nakamoto introduced BitCoin, the first cryptocurrency. Before our eyes, the very architecture of money was evolving — potentially changing the world in the process. In this hour, On the Media looks at the story of money, from its uncertain origins to its digital reinvention in the form of cryptocurrency. 1. The life and work of JSG Boggs, the artist who created hand-drawn replicas of currency that he used to buy goods and services. With Lawrence Weschler and MIT's Neha Narula [@neha]. Listen. 2. A brief history of money with UC Irvine's Bill Maurer and Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] from Brown University. Listen.  3. How cryptocurrency could shape the future of money, with MIT's Neha Narula [@neha], New York Times' Nathaniel Popper [@nathanielpopper], Vinay Gupta [@leashless] of Mattereum, Brown University's Mark Blyth [@MkBlyth] and artist Kevin Abosch [@kevinabosch]. Listen. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

In this episode we talk to Stephen Rea and Taylor Nelms about mobile money and financial apps. Stephen Rea and Taylor Nelms are two anthropologists who work at University of California, Irvine. We talk about their research, people's relationship/interaction with mobile money, debate ethical concerns and the nature of money itself and much more. We really dive into what mobile money is and the structures, relationships and beliefs built around it. Stephen C. Rea is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on how digital and mobile technologies intersect with issues of community, labour, and health. He has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork on digital gaming culture in South Korea, and has published on the social and technical infrastructures involved in mobile money for development. Taylor C. Nelms is an anthropologist and ethnographer of money, technology, bureaucracy, and everyday economic and political life. He has done extensive work in Latin America and the United States on the intersections of money and technology and how they shape the lives and livelihoods of the people who use them. Stephen and Taylor's work: Maurer, Bill, Taylor C. Nelms, and Stephen C. Rea. (2013). “‘Bridges to cash': channeling agency in mobile money.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (1): 52-74. Rea, Stephen C. and Taylor C. Nelms (2017). “Mobile Money: The First Decade.” Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion working paper. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/574243f9 Rea, Stephen C., Ursula Dalinghaus, Taylor C. Nelms, and Bill Maurer. (2016). "Riding the Rails of Mobile Payments: Financial Inclusion, Mobile Phones, and Infrastructure." In The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography Their work can be found on the website of the Future of Money Research Collaborative: https://moneyfutures.org/ Follow their work at: https://www.stephencrea.com/ http://www.taylornelms.net/ and after our publications, could you include a link to our joint website with the follow line:

Bill Maurer opened the panel highlighting three recent trends in finance: The shift of investment from traditional markets to non-market based financial arrangements championed by the rise of philanthropic venture capital pushing into all kinds of new areas that were traditionally not expected to yield a return; the remodeling or reorganization of financial infrastructures: payments, clearing services, trading platforms, supply chain management and so on; and the new quality of automaticity enabled by smart contracts, potentially creating tradable shares of everyday objects. What would it mean to engage critically with such developments? Maurer suggested to think about choking points: Where are these processes fragile? Is there a way to 'unplug' finance by politicizing its strategic dependence on energy grids?

Bill Maurer opened the panel highlighting three recent trends in finance: The shift of investment from traditional markets to non-market based financial arrangements championed by the rise of philanthropic venture capital pushing into all kinds of new areas that were traditionally not expected to yield a return; the remodeling or reorganization of financial infrastructures: payments, clearing services, trading platforms, supply chain management and so on; and the new quality of automaticity enabled by smart contracts, potentially creating tradable shares of everyday objects. What would it mean to engage critically with such developments? Maurer suggested to think about choking points: Where are these processes fragile? Is there a way to 'unplug' finance by politicizing its strategic dependence on energy grids?

Bill Maurer opened the panel highlighting three recent trends in finance: The shift of investment from traditional markets to non-market based financial arrangements championed by the rise of philanthropic venture capital pushing into all kinds of new areas that were traditionally not expected to yield a return; the remodeling or reorganization of financial infrastructures: payments, clearing services, trading platforms, supply chain management and so on; and the new quality of automaticity enabled by smart contracts, potentially creating tradable shares of everyday objects. What would it mean to engage critically with such developments? Maurer suggested to think about choking points: Where are these processes fragile? Is there a way to 'unplug' finance by politicizing its strategic dependence on energy grids?

Lana Swartz '08 discusses Paid: Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff, co-edited by Swartz and Bill Maurer and published in spring 2017 by MIT Press. "Money is not being dematerialized, Swartz, an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, suggests, "but rematerialized" in other forms. Read more about Swartz's book at: http://bit.ly/2uee9Ap. Episode: https://bit.ly/2IpJ00E.

Gabriele M. Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, where she is also associate faculty in the Department of Anthropology, associate faculty in Women's Studies, and core faculty in the Program in Theory and Culture. In this presentation, Schwab explores representations of what Ward Churchill calls the "radioactive colonization“ of indigenous lands by the extractive economy that developed during the Cold War, predominately on reservations in the United States. Drawing on Martin Cruz Smith's Stallion Gate, a novel about the first nuclear tests in New Mexico, as well as on Joseph Masco's ethnography Nuclear Borderlands, the talk examines the impact of an emergent nuclear politics on individual protagonists and their collective struggles for survival. This work foregrounds a cultural climate of secrecy and deception as well as the emergence of "nuclear subjectivities" that are marked by transgenerational nuclear trauma and psychic toxicity which parallels the radioactive poisoning of bodies and land. Schwab's books include Haunted Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma (2010), The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (1996), Subjects Without Selves (1994), Entgrenzungen und Entgrenzungsmythen (1987), and Samuel Becketts Endspiel mit der Subjektivitat (1981). She is the editor of Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis (2007) and co-editor, with Bill Maurer, of Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood (2006). Her wide ranging essays encompass numerous topics including critical theory, literary theory, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and trauma theory, 19th and 20th century literatures in English (including Native American and African American), as well as 19th and 20th century literatures in French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.