Speculative Futures
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Speculative Futures
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Author : Johanna Hoffman
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2022-10-04
Speculative Futures written by Johanna Hoffman and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Social Science categories.
How the emerging field of speculative futures can help us dream--and build--better, sustainable, and more equitable cities for everyone. Speculative futures--design approaches that help us visualize new and potential worlds--move us beyond what currently exists into what could one day be. Inspired by art, film, fiction, and industrial design, they use speculation to provoke, imagine, and dream into what lies ahead. Written for futurists, urbanists, and artists looking to enact city-wide transformation--and for readers at the intersection of disruption, design, innovation, and city living--this book offers creative paths toward urban resilience, using design tools that already exist. Artist and urbanist Johanna Hoffman uses an interdisciplinary lens informed by her experience in architecture, art, engineering, and construction to examine how we can reimagine our cities at every level: as individuals, in community, and on a professional scale. Hoffman blends precedent studies, compelling research, and professional memoir, connecting urban development issues with the processes and actions best positioned to create better solutions for our cities. The result is a dynamic field guide that uses speculative futures to imagine, advocate for, and adapt to modern scales, scopes, and speeds of change. While this book is of great utility to professionals in the urban design and planning industries, it’s also for people who resist received, capitalistic, technocratic ways of thinking--readers who seek new solutions to old problems with anti-colonial, living-systems-oriented lenses.
Migrant Futures
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Author : Aimee Bahng
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-16
Migrant Futures written by Aimee Bahng and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-16 with Social Science categories.
In Migrant Futures Aimee Bahng traces the cultural production of futurity by juxtaposing the practices of speculative finance against those of speculative fiction. While financial speculation creates a future based on predicting and mitigating risk for wealthy elites, the wide range of speculative novels, comics, films, and narratives Bahng examines imagines alternative futures that envision the multiple possibilities that exist beyond capital’s reach. Whether presenting new spatial futures of the US-Mexico borderlands or inventing forms of kinship in Singapore in order to survive in an economy designed for the few, the varied texts Bahng analyzes illuminate how the futurity of speculative finance is experienced by those who find themselves mired in it. At the same time these displaced, undocumented, unbanked, and disavowed characters imagine alternative visions of the future that offer ways to bring forth new political economies, social structures, and subjectivities that exceed the framework of capitalism.
Imagined Futures In Science Technology And Society
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Author : Gert Verschraegen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-04-07
Imagined Futures In Science Technology And Society written by Gert Verschraegen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-07 with Social Science categories.
Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make decisions about future actions, financial investments or technological innovation, without much knowledge of what will exactly happen in the future. Science and technology play a crucial role in this collective attempt to make sense of the future. Technological developments such as nanotechnology, robotics or solar energy largely shape how we dream and think about the future, while economic forecasts, gene tests or climate change projections help us to make images of what may possibly occur in the future. This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary assessments of how scientific and technological imaginations matter in the formation of human, ecological and societal futures. Rooted in different disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, and science and technology studies, it explores how various actors such as scientists, companies or states imagine the future to be and act upon that imagination. Bringing together case studies from different regions around the globe, including the electrification of German car infrastructure, or genetically modified crops in India, Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society shows how science and technology create novel forms of imagination, thereby opening horizons toward alternative futures. By developing central aspects of the current debate on how scientific imagination and future-making interact, this timely volume provides a fresh look at the complex interrelationships between science, technology and society. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students interested in Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Sciences, Future Studies and Literary Sciences.
Reauthorization Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Reauthorization Of The Commodity Futures Trading Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Commodity exchanges categories.
Speculation By Commodity Index Funds
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Author : Scott H. Irwin
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2023-04-25
Speculation By Commodity Index Funds written by Scott H. Irwin and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-25 with Business & Economics categories.
Commodity futures prices exploded in 2007-2008 and concerns about a new type of speculative participant in commodity futures markets began to emerge. The main argument was that unprecedented buying pressure from new "commodity index" investors created massive bubbles that resulted in prices substantially exceeding fundamental value. At the time, it was not uncommon to link concerns about speculation and high prices to world hunger, food crises, and civil unrest. Naturally, this outcry resulted in numerous regulatory proposals to restrict speculation in commodity futures markets. This book presents important research on the impact of index investment on commodity futures prices that the authors conducted over the last fifteen years. The eleven articles presented in the book follow the timeline of our involvement in the world-wide debate about index funds as it evolved after 2007. We also include an introductory chapter, new author forewords for each article chapter, and a lessons learned chapter to round out the book. Policy-makers, researchers, and market participants will find the book not only functions as useful documentation of the debate; but, also as a natural starting point when high commodity prices inevitably create the next speculation backlash.
Report
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Author : United States. Industrial Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
Report written by United States. Industrial Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with United States categories.
The Trouble With Speculation
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Author : Christine Mortimer
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2024-10-28
The Trouble With Speculation written by Christine Mortimer and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-28 with Political Science categories.
Bringing together contributors from Europe, North America and Australia, this book questions the purpose and outcomes of speculation in practical settings. In the context of interrelated and complex global challenges, speculation is not just useful but necessary. The chapters in this book present a cross-disciplinary dialogue of people that are developing work in speculation and interrogates its practices and ethical and political charges. Through these discussions, the book explores the potential of speculation in addressing issues such as climate change, urban futures and new political practices.
Fictitious Dealing In Agricultural Products
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Fictitious Dealing In Agricultural Products written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Farm produce categories.
Energy Speculation Is Greater Regulation Necessary To Stop Price Manipulation Serial No 110 128 June 23 2008 110 2 Hearing
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Energy Speculation Is Greater Regulation Necessary To Stop Price Manipulation Serial No 110 128 June 23 2008 110 2 Hearing written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Urban Dystopias
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Author : Jane Burry
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2023-01-19
Urban Dystopias written by Jane Burry and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-19 with Architecture categories.
Guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant existential narrative of the impact of and adaptation to climate change, itself powered by cities. In a time of unprecedented urbanisation and growth, resilient architecture and urbanism is needed in response. New modes of transport, renewed anxiety about robots taking jobs, AI, and the humbling recent experience of a global pandemic are all challenging norms and expectations. All of these are forces of social division, all are changing life experience, evoking strong-arm politics, and giving a sense of teetering between radically different possible futures. This is a story about reclaiming the urban design narrative and being alert to the potential impacts of socio-technical decision-making and design in cities. It is a story for its time. The issue explores the dichotomy of idealised visions for the design of urban settlements and the potentially shocking realities that may emerge from the same impulses and intentions. It examines the slippery territory between utopias and some of the ensuing dystopias that may unfold. Contributors: Tridib Banerjee, Daniele Belleri and Carlo Ratti, Steve Glackin, Justyna Karakiewicz, Nano Langenheim and Kongjian Yu, Mehrnoush Latifi, Andong Lu, Dan Nyandega, Jordi Oliveras, Kas Oosterhuis, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Ian Woodcock, and Tianyi Yang. Featured architects: Carlo Ratti Associati, ecoLogicStudio, Harrison and White, Turenscape, and Anton Markus Pasing, Remote Control Studio.