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 Jovanovic Weiss. Published by
Duke University Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
at The New School
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