{"title":"Speculative Finance and Network Temporality in Duncan Jones's Moon and Source Code","authors":"David P. Pierson","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0255","url":null,"abstract":"AT T H E H E A R T O F S P E C U L A T I V E F I N A N C E A N D G L O B A L I Z A T I O N E X I S T S A grand contradiction. While globalization, financial derivatives, and digital networks have created a system that circulates capital and distributes risks to create stability and protect against financial losses, these forces have also brought instability to local regions and populations as people experience the wild fluctuations of national currencies, increased price volatility in commodities, and a strong sense of inefficacy from their governments to affect their own economies. Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee state that “technologically-driven derivatives” have separated out value, wealth, and the cost of money in the exchange and transaction process from, “from the state of production, the social welfare of the producers, and the political needs of","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73983411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Currencies of Control: Black Mirror, In Time, and the Monetary Policies of Dystopia","authors":"J. Conway","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0229","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85728545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Future Fluctuations: Economy, Exchange, and Subjectivity in Recent English-Language Speculative Fiction","authors":"Mark A. Soderstrom","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0105","url":null,"abstract":"C H A R L E S S T R O S S ’ S N O V E L N E P T U N E ’ S B R O O D ( 2 0 1 3 ) P R O J E C T S ideas from David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2014) into a distant future where debt has become a law as unbreakable as the speed of light. Neptune’s Brood extrapolates current financial and market constructs to literalize the way that those constructs colonize and control not only markets but also people’s lives and subjectivities. This relationship between economics and speculative fiction (sf), at the forefront of Stross’s novel, has a long history. In 1759, for example, Adam Smith penned a short sf story as a way to illustrate his Theory of Moral Sentiments (DeLong 2016), and Marx’s","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89092176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promissory Futures: Reality and Imagination in Finance and Fiction","authors":"S. Vint","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0011","url":null,"abstract":"You and I, dear reader, in our own ways, are reproducing fictitious capital. The question is: how can we do so otherwise? Under what banner or standard might we reimagine our shared future? And what formation, if any, can actually challenge the massive power of financialization not only over governments and economics, but over everyday life, lived culture and the imagination itself? —Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization (2014, 189)","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90473917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frank Herbert's Dune and the Financialization of Heroic Masculinity","authors":"J. Pearson","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0155","url":null,"abstract":"TH I S A R T I C L E P R O C E E D S F R O M T W O B A S I C A S S E R T I O N S. FI R S T, T H A T FR A N K Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune is useful for thinking our financialized, late capitalist moment; and second, that the concepts and concerns of our moment are useful for rethinking this science fiction classic. As a conscious reading strategy, such anachronism brings seemingly disparate elements of the novel that critics tend to treat separately (ecology, gender, heroism, politics, prophesy, colonialism) into productive new conjunctions. In Dune’s protagonist, Paul Atreides, we see these threads woven into a problematic masculine subjectivity that exemplifies capacities of risk management and affective manipulation central to the postindustrial financial market system. The result is an early","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80212068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rancière's Lesson: October '17, May '68, October '17","authors":"Jernej Habjan","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0053","url":null,"abstract":"What can be said of Marxism in the twenty-first century? How can we speak of Marxism a century and a half after Das Kapital, a century after October ’17, and half a century after May ’68? What is Marxism in a time when Marxists mainly look back, commemorating spectacular anniversaries of their greatest achievements, while the future seems to be left to reformist projects like Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a book with the kind of sales for which even Slavoj Žižek would “sell [his] mother into slavery”? (Žižek 2014) 1","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73922163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My's Silent Scream: Memory, Traumatic Time, and the Embodiment of the Black Surreal in Rickerby Hinds's Dreamscape","authors":"S. Batiste","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0117","url":null,"abstract":"Ever had one of those dreams where nothing comes out when you [try to] scream . . . –Rickerby Hinds, Dreamscape 2011, 56 TH R O U G H F I C T I V E R E I M A G I N A T I O N, RI C K E R B Y HI N D S’S H I P-H O P P L A Y Dreamscape: A Play Based on True Events retells the 1998 police shooting of Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old black woman from Rubidoux, California. She was slumped over in a locked vehicle with a flat tire near a Riverside gas station, shaking and foaming at the mouth with a semiautomatic pistol in her lap (66DZ, 2012). Far from simply documenting this historical horror, Rickerby Hinds creates from these details a contemplation of life, the promise of violence, the ubiquity of death via the story of “Myeisha Mills,” a young woman who survives nine gunshots wounds before a final three kill her. Myeisha wakes up into a living nightmare as she faces death at the beginning of the","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77196762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Riddle of Identity Politics","authors":"Grant Farred","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0019","url":null,"abstract":"O U T O F H I S T O R I C A L N E C E S S I T Y , F R E D R I C J A M E S O N A R G U E S I N Representing Capital, his careful—part by part, if not quite chapter by chapter—reading of Marx’s first volume of Capital, thinking politics in and for our time must commence in a very specific place. In the contemporary moment, politics must begin with or as an address to the question of representation. This is a question, Jameson recognizes, as much for literary theory as it is for philosophy, as much for history as it is for the postmodern, that raises “dilemma of representation as such. It is now around the question of representation that contemporary interrogations of truth must turn, as well as those","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90600339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coming into the Self: Autobiography and Masturbation","authors":"Paula Cucurella","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0157","url":null,"abstract":"Lords day. Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of L’escolle des Filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world. At noon home to dinner, where by appointment Mr. Pelling came, and with him three friends. . . . We sang till almost night, and drank my good store of wine; and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through L’escholle des Filles; a lewd book, but what doth me no wrong to read for information sake (but it did hazer my prick para stand all the while, and una vez to decharger); and after I had done it, I burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame; and so at night to supper and then to bed. (Pepys 1985, 873; emphasis added)","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91311840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Darkies Never Dream: Race, Racism, and the Black Imagination in Science Fiction","authors":"J. G. Russell","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.18.3.0255","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the putative lack of black engagement with science fiction (SF) as readers and writers. It argues that although blacks have been writing and reading science fiction since the genre’s inception, this has generally not been recognized due in part to perdurable stereotypes of blacks as lacking sufficient imaginative power to enjoy SF as readers or to produce it as writers, as well as to stereotypes from both within and outside of the genre that characterize it as an intellectually challenging but puerile escapism unsuited to blacks who must preoccupy themselves with the daily realities of real-world oppression. Although black readers and writers of SF remain numerically small, I argue that black engagement with the genre has been marked not by absence but by invisibility, that is, by a failure of both those within and outside of it to perceive its presence.","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88590570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}