Urs Stäheli, Spectacular Speculation: Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse

Abstract

Spectacular Speculation analyzes the historical and popular relationship between speculation and spectacularity (the popular). The popular and affective aspects.Dat populaire zit 'm bijvoorbeeld ook in gokken, combineert geld met entertainment. Eerste twee hoofdstukken: relatie tussen speculeren en gokken. Speculation in a certain time undergoes processes of “purification and normalization” that distance it from gambling, but the cost is the discursive representation of its “fictionality,” i.e., its distance from real productive objects. Hfd 3, 4, en 5 relatie tussen speculatie en 'crowds'. the successful speculator needs to be able to read the crowd in order to profit: the crowd is now acknowledged as being “inside” the market, but the speculator must learn “techniques of the self” to not succumb to crowd psychology and the seductions of the market itself.Chapter 6: gender. Markt is seducer, fickle, volatile, moet tegen gevochten worden. kunnen vrouwen niet, zijn dat zelf.