Speculation, Now - Essays and Artwork

Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The New School.

Prem Krishnamurthy, a designer and curator based in New York, is a founder of the award-winning design studio Project Projects.

Carin Kuoni is Director and Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, a public research laboratory dedicated to exploring the relationship between political and aesthetic practices.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Carin Kuoni 10

Speculation, Now / Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao 14

Design Notes / Prem Krishnamurthy 26

Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction / Boris Groys 33

Dreams, Magic, and Mirrors: More Histories of Extraversion and Speculation in Central Africa / Filip De Boeck 40

Hedge/Hog: Speculative Action in Financial Markets / Satya Pemmaraju 52

Preface to the third edition / Walid Raad 60

The Ethics of Deep Time / Trevor Paglen 70

Colors, Cash, Fabric, and Trim: Fast-fashion Families in Downtown L.A. / Christina Moon 73

Synchronicities / Sherene Schostak 86

Post-Racial America? Addressing Racial Inequality / Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr. 92

Psychics Special / Lin + Lam 104

Speculation with Data: Remittances, Refugees, and Migration / Laura Kurgan 112

Diary: Towards an Architecture of Balkanization / Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss 122

Image: Visual Speculation and Political Change / Victoria Hattam 139

Night Thoughts: Unintended Consequences in the Modern Economy / Mary Poovey 142

On the Matter of Change: Three Scenes of Collective Action / Robert Sember 146

over/sight / Lize Mogul 156

The Barzakh of the Image and the Speculative Scene of Possession / Stefania Pandolfo 168

Taking a Trip / Gary Lincoff 188

The Paradox of Beginnings / Angie Keefer and Lucy Skaer 204

Speculation, After the Fact / Arjun Appadurai 206

!?!?. . . / Hans Haacke 210

Speculation Now: The Expanded Field 220

Biographies 234

Acknowledgments 250

Vera List Center for Art and Politics 252

Considering Forgiveness 254

Index 256

Photo Credits 270

Colophon 272

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao, with Prem Krishnamurty and Carin Kuoni, eds.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Vyjayanthi Krishnamurthy Rao, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli (EDT)/ Krishnamurthy Rao, Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Krishnamurthy Rao
• Mitarbeit: Prem Krishnamurthy (Herausgeber), Carin Kuoni (Herausgeber), Vyjayanthi Rao (Herausgeber), Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9780822358299
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5829-9
• Seiten: 277
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Russland, Enzyklopädien und Nachschlagewerke, Art & Art Instruction, REFERENCE / Questions & Answers, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Conceptual