Speculation, Now
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Speculation, Now

Essays and Artwork

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Speculation, Now

Essays and Artwork

About this book

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 Jovanovi? Weiss.

Published by Duke University Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School
 

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Yes, you can access Speculation, Now by Vyjayanthi Rao, Prem Krishnamurthy, Carin Kuoni, Vyjayanthi Rao,Prem Krishnamurthy,Carin Kuoni,Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & Art General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword (Carin Kuoni)
  3. Speculation, Now (Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao)
  4. Design Notes (Prem Krishnamurthy)
  5. Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction (Boris Groys)
  6. Dreams, Magic, and Mirrors: More Histories of Extraversion and Speculation in Central Africa (Filip De Boeck)
  7. Hedge/Hog: Speculative Action in Financial Markets (Satya Pemmaraju)
  8. Preface to the third edition (Walid Raad)
  9. The Ethics of Deep Time (Trevor Paglen)
  10. Colors, Cash, Fabric, and Trim: Fast-fashion Families in Downtown L.A. (Christina Moon)
  11. Synchronicities (Sherene Schostak)
  12. Post-Racial America? Addressing Racial Inequality (Darrick Hamilton & William Darity, Jr.)
  13. Psychics Special (Lin + Lam)
  14. Speculation with Data: Remittances, Refugees, and Migration (Laura Kurgan)
  15. Diary: Towards an Architecture of Balkanization (Srdjan Jovanovic´ Weiss)
  16. Image: Visual Speculation and Political Change (Victoria Hattam)
  17. Night Thoughts: Unintended Consequences in the Modern Economy (Mary Poovey)
  18. On the Matter of Change: Three Scenes of Collective Action (Robert Sember)
  19. over/sight (Lize Mogel)
  20. The Barzakh of the Image and the Speculative Scene of Possession (Stefania Pandolfo)
  21. Taking a Trip (Gary Lincoff)
  22. The Paradox of Beginnings (Angie Keefer & Lucy Skaer)
  23. Speculation, After the Fact (Arjun Appadurai)
  24. !?!?… (Hans Haacke)
  25. Speculation, NowThe Expanded Field
  26. Biographies
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Vera List Center for Art and Politics
  29. Considering Forgiveness
  30. Index
  31. Photo Credits
  32. Colophon