{"title":"Ozeki's Mirror Rooms: Posthumanism and A Tale for the Time Being","authors":"Keren Omry","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.2.0117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.2.0117","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45935,"journal":{"name":"CR-THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74305166","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":"Of Time Loops and Derivatives: Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and the Logic of the Futures Market","authors":"Marcia Klotz","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0277","url":null,"abstract":"AS W I L L B E O B V I O U S T O T H E M O S T C A S U A L V I E W E R, S P E C U L A T I V E F I C T I O N of the twenty-first century has been characterized by an extraordinary proliferation of apocalyptic narratives, all featuring the end of the world as we know it. Sometimes the end comes through a gradual fraying of the social fabric, as in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower series (1993; 1998) or Edan Lapucki’s California (2015), until society is reduced to a Hobbesian world ruled by roving bands of thugs, arsonists, and cannibals. Or maybe it’s a nuclear conflict that initiates Armageddon, as in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2007) or the Hughes brothers’ The Book of Eli (2010). Some visions of the end, like Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy (2002–14) or Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009), feature a biogenetic-induced ecological catastrophe. In others, various threats to planetary survival mutually reinforce one another; in John Howard Kunstler’s World Made by Hand series (2009; 2011; 2015) or Omar El","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":"73517392","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":"Introduction: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction","authors":"D. M. Higgins, H. O’Connell","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0001","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":"85233126","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":"A Glorious Mythology of Loss: Speculative Finance in Alan Moore's Jerusalem","authors":"D. M. Higgins","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0061","url":null,"abstract":"SP E C U L A T I V E F I C T I O N S O F T E N R E F U S E T O A C C E P T T H E I N E V I T A B I L I T Y O F the world-as-we-know-it in order to explore cognitive estrangements—story elements that are broadly imaginative yet grounded in the complexity of real-world conditions—that aspire toward alternative visions of social, political, and economic life (Suvin 2016). Not all speculative fictions, of course, invoke utopian possibilities: some serve as propaganda for technoscientific modernity, others revel in shallow escapism, and still others engage in fantasies of empire and racial supremacy (Rieder 2008). At its best, however, speculative fiction refuses to take the existing conditions of the world for granted, and this refusal enables it to challenge the ideological hegemony of capitalist realism as well as to counter the poisonous forms of abstraction that drive neoliberal accumulation and dispossession (Fisher 2009). Because speculative fictions often avoid taking naturalized economic worldviews at face value, they sometimes have a unique capacity to expose","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":"75366870","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 Great Dividuation","authors":"Joel Mason, M. Hornblow, Anique Vered","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0085","url":null,"abstract":"In an age of collapse, and the temporality of many potential 2008’s, monstrous conceptualfigures appear on a mythic and symbolic landscape: fiat money, crypto-currency, blockchain,machines of abstraction, factions of value operating at the borders of the recognized.","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":"87531392","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":"\"Trust Me\": Volatile Markets in Twilight and The Hunger Games","authors":"Meghanne Flynn, Sarah Hardstaff","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0205","url":null,"abstract":"WH E N SU Z A N N E CO L L I N S’S TH E HU N G E R GA M E S W A S P U B L I S H E D I N 2008, it was critically praised as the “antidote” to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, with Collins’s Katniss Everdeen heralded as the active feminist agent to counter Meyer’s passive Bella Swan. Meyer’s series drew to a close as Collins’s began, both in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis. Both series are compellingly connected to speculative finance. The Hunger Games caught the imagination of youth punished and excluded by a crash they did not cause, while facing uncertainty about the future; economist Noreena Hertz has dubbed today’s youth “Generation K” after Katniss (Hertz 2016). Meanwhile, critiques of Twilight’s Edward Cullen as “compensated psychopath” (Merskin 2011, 157)","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":"75465652","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":"Apocalypse, Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction","authors":"Steve Asselin","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0181","url":null,"abstract":"PO P U L A R F I C T I O N I N T H E C L O S I N G D A Y S O F T H E N I N E T E E N T H C E N T U R Y W A S awash with apocalyptic scenarios, ranging from stories of future wars and alien invasions to narratives about global ecological collapse, arising from spaceborne catastrophe or from the result of humanity’s own dangerous meddling in the global environment. Many (if not most) of the narratives that make up the late Victorian apocalyptic fad were squarely situated in the realm of speculative fiction, especially in their imagining of new technological innovations. The new forms of weaponry in such narratives included early versions of nuclear bombs and other technological weapons that had the potential to wipe out all (human) life on the planet (Gannon 2005). The recent revival and recontextualization of nuclear criticism away from weaponry in the strictest sense, however, and toward all forms of technology with the potential to endanger global survival (Wallace 2016) is an apt reminder that technology","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":"83291961","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 Novums of Fiscalmancy: Speculative Finance and Speculative Fiction in Ian McDonald's The Dervish House","authors":"H. O’Connell","doi":"10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.1.0129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.19.1.0129","url":null,"abstract":"What happens to speculative fiction (sf) under a perpetual winter of financial crisis? If, as John Rieder (2008) and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. (2003) have argued, sf’s advent is coterminous with and ideologically pinned to the rise of imperialism, its development also takes place from within the regime of productive, Fordist capitalism. Sf’s technological novums—from the Nautilus to the time machine, faster than light engines to robots, quantum computing to nanotechnology—bare this imprint of production’s dominance. But what happens to sf as the mode of production shifts from the material to the immaterial, from the dominance of the commodity form to the dominance 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":"91111666","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 Realism of Speculation: Contemporary Speculative Fiction as Immanent Critique of Finance Capitalism","authors":"M. Nilges","doi":"10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14321/CRNEWCENTREVI.19.1.0037","url":null,"abstract":"“BY N O W,” CH R I S T I A N MA R A Z Z I A R G U E S I N H I S 2011 B O O K TH E VI O L E N C E of Financial Capitalism, “finance permeates from the beginning to the end the circulation of capital.” And because today “every productive act and every act of consumption is directly or indirectly tied to finance,” Marazzi continues, we must understand our moment in time as the period in which finance’s “speculative logic” has become the logic of capitalism’s dominant form (Marazzi 2011, 107). But when speculation becomes the dominant logic of material reality, what happens to speculative fiction (sf)? The editors of this special issue have chosen a poignant title for this collection of essays, one that, as I will show in what follows, gets at the heart of the logical and structural relationship between speculative finance and speculative fiction today. In fact, I would suggest, one could think of this issue’s title—“Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction”—as shorthand for the dialectic of speculation","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":"80331176","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}