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Catastrophe Time!
Taschenbuch von Gary Zhexi Zhang
Sprache: Englisch

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A collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe.

Once, financial practitioners plied a hybrid trade as hydrologists, star-gazers, and weather-watchers who sought to discover the natural laws of value and exchange as they did the divine order of an unchanging nature. Today, corporate firms hire trend forecasters and scenario planners to play out strategic fictions in virtual worlds. Hurricane insurance markets simulate a turbulent climate to offer investment instruments to hedge against the risks of the stock market. And for financial astrologers operating in the city of London, celestial motions provide a cosmic map that orients the mood of terrestrial markets.

Bringing together artists, researchers, and interstitial practitioners, Catastrophe Time! pays attention to the conditions of speculative knowledge on an increasingly volatile planet. Traversing a gray zone between rigorous research and operative science fictions, its contributors question how practices of speculation may transform, undermine, and at times exceed, the worlds they set out to model.

Edited by artist Gary Zhexi Zhang, Catastrophe Time! explores the power of temporal technologies—whether currencies, conspiracies, or simulation models—to shape reality through fiction. By bringing together researchers and writers working at the boundaries of temporal practices, including Diann Bauer, Philip Grant, Bahar Noorizadeh, Habib William Kherbek, Klara Kofen, Kei Kreutler, Suhail Malik, Bassem Saad and Gordon Woo, this urgent volume seeks to make sense of the unraveling times in which we live.
A collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe.

Once, financial practitioners plied a hybrid trade as hydrologists, star-gazers, and weather-watchers who sought to discover the natural laws of value and exchange as they did the divine order of an unchanging nature. Today, corporate firms hire trend forecasters and scenario planners to play out strategic fictions in virtual worlds. Hurricane insurance markets simulate a turbulent climate to offer investment instruments to hedge against the risks of the stock market. And for financial astrologers operating in the city of London, celestial motions provide a cosmic map that orients the mood of terrestrial markets.

Bringing together artists, researchers, and interstitial practitioners, Catastrophe Time! pays attention to the conditions of speculative knowledge on an increasingly volatile planet. Traversing a gray zone between rigorous research and operative science fictions, its contributors question how practices of speculation may transform, undermine, and at times exceed, the worlds they set out to model.

Edited by artist Gary Zhexi Zhang, Catastrophe Time! explores the power of temporal technologies—whether currencies, conspiracies, or simulation models—to shape reality through fiction. By bringing together researchers and writers working at the boundaries of temporal practices, including Diann Bauer, Philip Grant, Bahar Noorizadeh, Habib William Kherbek, Klara Kofen, Kei Kreutler, Suhail Malik, Bassem Saad and Gordon Woo, this urgent volume seeks to make sense of the unraveling times in which we live.
Über den Autor
Gary Zhexi Zhang is a visual artist and writer whose work explores social infrastructures, technical histories, and conceptual systems. He was born in China, grew up in Birmingham, and is currently based in London. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, Cambridge University, and MIT.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781913689674
ISBN-10: 1913689670
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Zhang, Gary Zhexi
Redaktion: Gary Zhexi Zhang
Hersteller: Strange Attractor Press
Maße: 197 x 130 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Gary Zhexi Zhang
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,316 kg
preigu-id: 124039484
Über den Autor
Gary Zhexi Zhang is a visual artist and writer whose work explores social infrastructures, technical histories, and conceptual systems. He was born in China, grew up in Birmingham, and is currently based in London. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, Cambridge University, and MIT.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781913689674
ISBN-10: 1913689670
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Zhang, Gary Zhexi
Redaktion: Gary Zhexi Zhang
Hersteller: Strange Attractor Press
Maße: 197 x 130 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Gary Zhexi Zhang
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,316 kg
preigu-id: 124039484
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