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Introduction: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction.

The article examines how the historical rise of dominant finance capital gives form to speculative fiction. Topics covered include William Gibson's 2003 novel "Pattern Recognition," an essay about the speculative in science fiction by Arjun Appadurai, and a reexamination of the tradition of critical...

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Published in:CR: The New Centennial Review Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors: Higgins, David M., O'Connell, Hugh C.
Format: Article
Published: Michigan State University Press Spring2019
Subjects:
Speculative fiction
Pattern Recognition (Book)
Science fiction
Gibson, William, 1948-
Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
Lowry, Michael
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article examines how the historical rise of dominant finance capital gives form to speculative fiction. Topics covered include William Gibson's 2003 novel "Pattern Recognition," an essay about the speculative in science fiction by Arjun Appadurai, and a reexamination of the tradition of critical realism by Michael Löwy.