Speculative Finance / Speculative Fiction Special Issue

 *Journal Issue Announcement: **Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction*
A special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1

Edited by David M. Higgins and Hugh C. O’Connell

Full Text Available through Project Muse and in Print

Including an introduction, 11 critical articles, and a theory-fiction

*Contents:*

Introduction: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction
David M. Higgins and Hugh C. O’Connell

Promissory Futures: Reality and Imagination in Finance and Fiction
Sherryl Vint

The Realism of Speculation: Contemporary Speculative Fiction as Immanent
Critique of Finance Capitalism
Mathias Nilges

A Glorious Mythology of Loss: Speculative Finance in Alan Moore’s Jerusalem
David M. Higgins

The Great Dividuation [A Theory-Fiction]
Joel E. Mason, Michael Hornblow, anique yael vered

Future Fluctuations: Economy, Exchange, and Subjectivity in Recent
English-Language Speculative Fiction
Mark Soderstrom

The Novums of Fiscalmancy: Speculative Finance and Speculative Fiction in
Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House
Hugh C. O’Connell

Frank Herbert's Dune and the Financialization of Heroic Masculinity
Joshua Pearson

Apocalypse, Inc.: Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in
Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction
Steve Asselin

“Trust Me”: Volatile Markets in Twilight and The Hunger Games
Meghanne Flynn and Sarah Hardstaff

Currencies of Control: Black Mirror, In Time, and the Monetary Policies
of Dystopia
Joe Conway

Speculative Finance and Network Temporality in Duncan
Jones’s Moon and Source Code
David P. Pierson

Of Time Loops and Derivatives: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and the
Logic of the Futures Market
Marcia Klotz


-- 
David M. Higgins

Speculative Fiction Editor, *Los Angeles Review of Books*
Second Vice President, International Association for the Fantastic in the
Arts
English Department, Inver Hills College

"For those who cleave to it, a paradox of actually existing revolution is
that in its potential for utter reconfiguration, it is, precisely, beyond
words, a messianic interruption -- one that emerges from the quotidian.
Unsayable, yet the culmination of everyday exhortations. Beyond language
and of it, beyond representation and not."

-- China Mieville, *October: The Story of the Russian Revolution*

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