Distinktion Special Issue proposal Silicon Valley, Imaginative Speculations, and Financialization Ali Rıza Taşkale Introduction Silicon Valley has long been regarded as a symbol of innovation and progress, shaped by the fusion of countercultural ideals from the 1960s...
Keynote Speaker: Sherryl Vint, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Chair of the Department of English at UC Riverside Workshop rationale While social thinkers have begun to explore the role of speculative fiction in understanding financial abstractions and...
This panel begins from the critical position that the hegemony of speculative finance demands new avenues for collective resistances created by its conditions, and that speculative fiction has the capacity to address this problem. The three papers are thus concerned...
Speculative Fiction in the Anthropocene From an International Relations (IR) perspective, it is interesting to observe how speculative fiction deals with “cognitive estrangement” when it comes to the Anthropocene and classical concepts in world politics such as global...
As part of my Marie Curie project on speculative finance and speculative fiction, I’m organising another event on the 18th of April. Sherryl Vint, one of the leading scholars of Science Fiction in the world today, will come to RUC to talk about the nested narrative of...
