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 Jovanović Weiss.
Published by Duke University Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
- Contents
- Foreword (Carin Kuoni)
- Speculation, Now (Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao)
- Design Notes (Prem Krishnamurthy)
- Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction (Boris Groys)
- Verification (Iddo Tavory)
- Obfuscation (Orit Halpern)
- Dreams, Magic, and Mirrors: More Histories of Extraversion and Speculation in Central Africa (Filip De Boeck)
- Witchcraft (Peter Geschiere)
- Mirroring (Luke Fowler)
- Speculative Hedging (Kenan Halabi)
- Hedge/Hog: Speculative Action in Financial Markets (Satya Pemmaraju)
- The Contemporary (Katherine Carl)
- Exception, The State of (Chen Tamir)
- Metahistory (Judith Barry)
- Preface to the third edition (Walid Raad)
- The Ethics of Deep Time (Trevor Paglen)
- Withdrawal (Graham Harman)
- Colors, Cash, Fabric, and Trim: Fast-fashion Families in Downtown L.A. (Christina Moon)
- Risk (Larissa Harris)
- Models (David Reinfurt)
- Unlikeness (McKenzie Wark)
- Trading Markets (Byron Tucker)
- Synchronicities (Sherene Schostak)
- Post-Racial America? Addressing Racial Inequality (Darrick Hamilton & William Darity, Jr.)
- Credit (Dushko Petrovich)
- Insurrance (Elka Krajewska)
- States of Half-Knowledge: The Economy of Reading (Marysia Lewandowska)
- Infrastructure (Nader Vossoughian)
- Psychics Special (Lin + Lam)
- Speculation with Data: Remittances, Refugees, and Migration (Laura Kurgan)
- Prototype (Benjamin Aranda)
- Stability/Instability (smudge studio)
- Diary: Towards an Architecture of Balkanization (Srdjan Jovanovic´ Weiss)
- Broken Promises, or a Quick Sketch of the Prototype (Jamer Hunt)
- Ruin (Beth Stryker)
- Models (Brian McGrath)
- Neglect (Reem Fadda)
- Image: Visual Speculation and Political Change (Victoria Hattam)
- Night Thoughts: Unintended Consequences in the Modern Economy (Mary Poovey)
- Gambling (Elizabeth Thomas)
- On the Matter of Change: Three Scenes of Collective Action (Robert Sember)
- Risk (Holland Cotter)
- Toxic Debt (Dushko Petrovich)
- Investment (Özge Ersoy)
- over/sight (Lize Mogel)
- The Barzakh of the Image and the Speculative Scene of Possession (Stefania Pandolfo)
- Intentional Failure (Hakan Topal)
- Shadow World (Metahaven)
- Fortuitous (Aleksandra Wagner)
- Hallucination (Nicolas Langlitz)
- Hallucination (Joachim Koester)
- Taking a Trip (Gary Lincoff)
- Maybe (Sarah Oppenheimer)
- Exception, Sensitivity as (Chen Tamir)
- The Paradox of Beginnings (Angie Keefer & Lucy Skaer)
- Speculation, After the Fact (Arjun Appadurai)
- !?!?… (Hans Haacke)
- Speculation, NowThe Expanded Field
- Biographies
- Acknowledgments
- Vera List Center for Art and Politics
- Considering Forgiveness
- Index
- Infrastructure (Céline Condorelli)
- Photo Credits
- Colophon
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