Spectacular Speculation is a history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation from 1870 to 1930, when speculation began to assume enormous impo

What is the difference between a gambler and a speculator? Is there a readily identifiable line separating the two? If so, is it possible for us to discourage t

This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the day and shap

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in re

Speculative Communities investigates the financial world’s influence on the social imagination, unraveling its radical effects on our personal and political l