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 books 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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Such a beautiful book accidentally bought it twice lots of good tips ...By Marie McculloughSuch a beautiful book accidentally bought it twice lots of good tips beautiful watercolor paintings reminds me of Matisse in looseness and color and design Love it if you want to learn this beautiful freeing style this is the book for you!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Four StarsBy Joshua HawkinsI like the inside page ;its beautiful.6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful! Chock-full of pictures!By subieEvery page is a thrill of lovely bright color. This book is filled with good advice and inspiration. The illustrations are amazingly diverse - many different pictures; usually (as opposed to 3 or 4 successive shots of the same picture at different stages).
