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The Medium of Contingency (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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The Medium of Contingency (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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An unprecedented meeting of philosophical thought, financial
markets, and the art world. Why has the concept of contingency
taken on a marked importance both in contemporary philosophy and in
contemporary art practice? And if this simultaneity derives from
parallel problems met within the two different fields, what are
their common roots? Beyond acknowledging the contingent nature of
tradition, institutions, and practices, recent speculative
philosophies of "absolute contingency" demand a radical revision of
the ways in which we conceive of our interaction with unknowable
materialities, and pose a challenge to both probabilistic
management and process-driven affirmation of contingency. In an
unprecedented meeting of philosophical thought, financial markets,
and the art world, The Medium of Contingency explores how works of
art write contingency into the present, and are in turn written by
the contingency of their materials, and how these exchanges
interact with other markets. From the mathematical instruments used
to value financial derivatives to the nature of literary creation,
from the market-making role of the curator to the "chemistry of
openness," the contributors to this lively discussion draw out the
startling consequences of a new figure of thought.
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