Speculation, Now

Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao and Prem Krishnamurthy and Carin Kuoni (Editors)

Description

Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether "the speculative" can be represented on a map. An ethnographer investigates religious possession in Islam to contemplate states between the divine and the seemingly human. A financial technologist queries understandings of speculation in financial markets. A multimedia artist and activist considers the relation between social change and assumptions about the conditions to be changed, and an architect posits purposeful neglect as political strategy. The book includes an extensive glossary with more than twenty short entries in which scholars contemplate such speculation-related notions as insurance, hallucination, prophecy, the paradox of beginnings, and states of half-knowledge. The book's artful, nonlinear design mirrors and reinforces the notion of contingency that animates it. By embracing speculation substantively, stylistically, seriously, and playfully, Speculation, Now reveals its subversive and critical potential.Artists and essayists include William Darity Jr., Filip De Boeck, Boris Groys, Hans Haacke, Darrick Hamilton, Laura Kurgan, Lin + Lam, Gary Lincoff, Lize Mogel, Christina Moon, Stefania Pandolfo, Satya Pemmaraju, Mary Poovey, Walid Raad, Sherene Schostak, Robert Sember, and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss.Published by Duke University Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School 

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822375906
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

Extrait

Speculation, Now Essays and Artwork

Speculation, Now Essays and Artwork

Edited by Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao with Prem Krishnamurthy & Carin Kuoni

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS In association with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School

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Foreword Carin Kuoni

Contents

Speculation, Now Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao

Design Notes Prem Krishnamurthy

Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction Boris Groys

Dreams, Magic, and Mirrors: More Histories of Extraversion and Speculation in Central Africa Filip De Boeck

Hedge/Hog: Speculative Action in Financial Markets Satya Pemmaraju

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MODELS Josiah McElheny

VERIFICATION Iddo Tavory

OBFUSCATION Orit Halpern

WITCHCRAFT Peter Geschiere

MIRRORING Luke Fowler

SPECULATIVE HEDGING Kenan Halabi

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Preface to the third edition Walid Raad

The Ethics of Deep Time Trevor Paglen

Colors, Cash, Fabric, and Trim: Fast-fashion Families in Downtown L.A. Christina Moon

Synchronicities Sherene Schostak

Post-Racial America? Addressing Racial Inequality Darrick Hamilton & William Darity, Jr.

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THE CONTEMPORARY Katherine Carl

EXCEPTION, THE STATE OF Chen Tamir

METAHISTORY Judith Barry

WITHDRAWAL Graham Harman

RISK Larissa Harris

MODELS David Reinfurt

UNLIKENESS McKenzie Wark

TRADING MARKETS Byron Tucker

CREDIT Dushko Petrovich

INSURANCE Elka Krajewska

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Psychics Special Lin + Lam

Speculation with Data: Remittances,Refugees, and Migration Laura Kurgan

Diary: Towards an Architecture of Balkanization Srdjan Jovanovic´Weiss

Image: Visual Speculation and Political Change Victoria Hattam

Night Thoughts: Unintended Consequences in the Modern Economy Mary Poovey

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STATES OF HALF-KNOWLEDGE: THE ECONOMY OF READING Marysia Lewandowska

INFRASTRUCTURE Nader Vossoughian

PROTOTYPE Benjamin Aranda

STABILITY/INSTABILITY smudge studio

BROKEN PROMISES, OR A QUICK SKETCH OF THE PROTOTYPE Jamer Hunt

RUIN Beth Stryker

MODELS Brian McGrath

NEGLECT Reem Fadda

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On the Matter of Change: Three Scenes of Collective Action Robert Sember

over/sight Lize Mogel

The Barzakh of the Image and the Speculative Scene of Possession Stefania Pandolfo

Taking a Trip Gary Lincoff

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GAMBLING Elizabeth Thomas

RISK Holland Cotter

TOXIC DEBT Dushko Petrovich

INVESTMENT Özge Ersoy

INTENTIONAL FAILURE Hakan Topal

SHADOW WORLD Metahaven

FORTUITOUS Aleksandra Wagner

HALLUCINATION Nicolas Langlitz

HALLUCINATION Joachim Koester

MAYBE Sarah Oppenheimer

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The Paradox of Beginnings Angie Keefer & Lucy Skaer

Speculation, After the Fact Arjun Appadurai

!?!?… Hans Haacke

Speculation, Now The Expanded Field Biographies Acknowledgments Vera List Center for Art and Politics Considering Forgiveness

Index

Photo Credits Colophon

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EXCEPTION, SENSITIVITY AS Chen Tamir

MIRRORING 207 Amie Siegel

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INFRASTRUCTURE Céline Condorelli

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