JOURNAL OF THE FIRST OUTERNATIONAL

Defining Speculation

∞ “Defining Speculation: Speculative Fiction, Speculative Philosophy, and Speculative Finance” (pdf) – Steven Shaviro, 2019

Steven Shaviro is the DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He mostly writes about science fiction, music videos, and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. His recent books include DISCOGNITION (Repeater Books, 2016). He blogs at The Pinocchio Theory.
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    […] is an active desertification of options and possibilities enacted by mathematical instruments of financial speculation. Imagination is precluded and pre-empted (see Brian Massumi’s definition preemption) by an […]

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    […] as specifically exploring possibilities of an unknown and unpredictable future through their work. Here I am following closely a key text by Steven Shaviro that attempts exactly to trace how speculative fiction and financial speculation interlace yet part […]