Engaging with the question of speculation in ways that encompass
the artistic, the economic and the philosophical, with excursions
into the literary and the scientific, this collection approaches
the theme as a powerful logic of contemporary life, whose key
instantiations are art and finance. Both are premised on the power
of contingency, temporality, and experiment in the creation (and
capitalisation) of possible worlds: artistic autonomy, and the
self-legislation of the space of art, was once and often still is
seen as the freedom to speculate wildly on material and social
possibilities, with the artist as a speculative subject seen as the
paragon of creativity - the complete opposite of the bean-counter
obsessed with balance sheets and value-added. However once social
reality becomes speculative and opaque in its own right, risky and
algorithmic, overhauled by networked markets in everything, what
becomes of the distinction between not just art and finance, but
art and life? This new anthology surveys material and social
inventiveness from the ground up: speculating with constructs of
the family, speculating with technologies, speculating with gender,
speculating with systems of logistics and co-ordination. An ecology
of speculation is traced, as broken, specific and enthralling as
the world. Artists surveyed include Bertolt Brecht, Jerzy
Ludwinski, Cameron Rowland, Salvage Art Institute, Andy Warhol, Mi
You, PiraMMMida, Sam Lewitt Writers Include Lisa Adkins, Ramon
Amaro, Brenna Bhandar, Octavia Butler, Cedric Durand, Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel, Sophie Lewis, Dougal Dixon, Stanislaw Lem,
Isabelle Stengers and Phillip Pignarre, Steven Shaviro, Can Xue,
Daniel Spaulding
General
| Imprint: |
Whitechapel Gallery
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Documents of Contemporary Art |
| Release date: |
March 2023 |
| Editors: |
Marina Vishmidt
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| Dimensions: |
210 x 145mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
240 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-85488-299-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-85488-299-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780854882991 |
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