Speculation, Now: Essays and Artwork

Media type: E-Book

Title: Speculation, Now : Essays and Artwork

Contributor: Keefer, Angie [Contributor]; Appadurai, Arjun [Contributor]; Groys, Boris [Contributor]; Kuoni, Carin [Contributor]; Moon, Christina [Contributor]; Hamilton, Darrick [Contributor]; De Boeck, Filip [Contributor]; Lincoff, Gary [Contributor]; Haacke, Hans [Contributor]; Krishnamurthy, Prem [Editor]; Kuoni, Carin [Editor]; Kurgan, Laura [Contributor]; Mogel, Lize [Contributor]; Skaer, Lucy [Contributor]; Poovey, Mary [Contributor]; Krishnamurthy, Prem [Contributor]; Rao, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli [Editor]; Sember, Robert [Contributor]; Pemmaraju, Satya [Contributor]; Schostak, Sherene [Contributor]; Weiss, Srdjan Jovanović [Contributor]; Pandolfo, Stefania [Contributor]; Paglen, Trevor [Contributor]; Hattam, Victoria [Contributor]; Rao, Vyjayanthi Venturupalli [Contributor]; Rao, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli [Contributor]; Raad, Walid [Contributor]; Darity Jr, William [Contributor]

Published: Durham: Duke University Press, [2015]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p); 60 color illustrations

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822375906

ISBN: 9780822375906

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Keywords: Arts and society ; Arts Experimental methods ; Speculation ; ART / Conceptual

Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Footnote: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Speculation, Now -- Design Notes -- Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction -- Dreams, Magic, and Mirrors: More Histories of Extraversion and Speculation in Central Africa -- Hedge /Hog: Speculative Action in Financial Markets -- Preface to the third edition -- The Ethics of Deep Time -- Colors, Cash, Fabric, and Trim: Fast-fashion Families in Downtown L.A. -- Synchronicities -- Post-Racial America? Addressing Racial Inequality -- Psychics Special -- Speculation with Data: Remittances,Refugees, and Migration -- Diary: Towards an Architecture of Balkanization -- Image: Visual Speculation and Political Change -- Night Thoughts: Unintended Consequences in the Modern Economy -- On the Matter of Change: Three Scenes of Collective Action -- over/sight -- The Barzakh of the Image and the Speculative Scene of Possession -- Taking a Trip -- The Paradox of Beginnings -- Speculation, After the Fact -- !?!?... -- Speculation, Now -- Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Vera List Center for Art and Politics -- Considering Forgiveness -- Index -- Photo Credits -- Colophon

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

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