'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.
Onsite
English
cross-disciplinary practice,  politics,  globalisation,  sociology
2014
271
9780822358299
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anthology
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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