Download or read book The Modernity Bluff written by Sasha Newell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Enregistering modernity, bluffing criminality : how Nouchi speech reinvented the nation -- Bizness and "blood brothers" : the moral economy of crime -- Faire le show : masculinity and the performative success of waste -- Fashioning alterity : masking, metonymy, and otherworld origins -- Paris is hard like a rock : migration and the spatial hierarchy of global relations -- Counterfeit belongings : branding the Ivoirian political crisis -- Conclusion : modernity as bluff.