by shandra | Jul 4, 2023 | Events, Panel: Disrupting Speculative Finance
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...
by shandra | Jul 4, 2023 | Events, Speculative Fiction in the Anthropocene
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...
by shandra | May 22, 2023 | Ali Riza Taskale Marie Curie Talk Series, Events
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...
by shandra | May 1, 2023 | Events
The news is pretty bleak these days with fascism, climate change and late-stage capitalism on the rise. People keep repeating “This is the bad place”. The panel discussed if we have slipped into an actual dystopia without noticing.Seb Doubinsky, Ali Riza Taskale,...
by shandra | Apr 1, 2023 | Ali Riza Taskale Marie Curie Talk Series, Events
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...
by shandra | Mar 15, 2023 | Ali Riza Taskale Marie Curie Talk Series, Events
What exactly is the role of speculation in contemporary capitalist society? How do we untangle finance capitalism’s formidable imagination—to make sense of its impact on the ways we live now? How do we imagine genuinely alternative life patterns that can go beyond the...
