'What needs to change in our understanding of reality for reality to change? In the face of radical uncertainty, an awareness that things could be otherwise is beginning to organize common frameworks and guide action and debate. Transdisciplinary by design and concept, Speculation, Now assembles the voices of artists, architects, designers, economists, scientists, and scholars of otherness who reflect on the speculative moment in their fields. The result conflates the space of the book with the space of an exhibition, provides points of convergence between images, concepts of convergence between images, concepts of and language, and incites the reader to affect what is, was, and what may be.' - from book cover

As a result of the public research conducted by the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School, Speculation, Now sets its focus on speculation as a methodology in the age of radical change and uncertainty resulted from globalisation, capital expansion and human activities. Editorially, in between and within essays, artists, scientists, sociologists and other practitioners have contributed to a set of 'glossary' terms which are various concepts related to speculation.

Includes contributors' biographies.

Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.RAV2
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2014

No of pages

271

ISBN / ISSN

9780822358299

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Speculation, Now - Vyjayanthi 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

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.

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

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

The Paradox of Beginnings - Angie KEEFER, Lucy SKAER

Speculation, After the Fact - Arjun APPADURAI

!?!?... - Hans HAACKE

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