Catastrophe Time! av Gary Zhexi Zhang

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<b>A collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe.</b><br><br>Once, financial practitioners plied a hybrid trade as hydrologists, star-gazers, and weather-watchers who sought to discover the natural laws of value and exchange as they did the divine order of an unchanging nature. Today, corporate firms hire trend forecasters and scenario planners to play out strategic fictions in virtual worlds. Hurricane insurance markets simulate a turbulent climate to offer investment instruments to hedge against the risks of the stock market. And for financial astrologers operating in the city of London, celestial motions provide a cosmic map that orients the mood of terrestrial markets.<br><br>Bringing together artists, researchers, and interstitial practitioners, <i>Catastrophe Time!</i> pays attention to the conditions of speculative knowledge on an increasingly volatile planet. Traversing a gray zone between rigorous research and ope