Introduction: global political economy, capitalism and popular culture -- Money and desire -- Bodies and possessions -- Development and motion -- Technology and alienation -- States and regulations -- Economy and gender -- Capitalism and disruption -- Through the mirror, darkly

Creative Capital provides grants to individual artists using a venture capital model-the money comes with guidance and governance. Artists receive money as milestones are reached and also receive guidance on managing their lives and business to increase their sustainability. But as Ruby Lerner,...

This article addresses contemporary art as a means to investigate how, and to what extent, financial logic impacts upon the socio-cultural sphere. Its contribution is twofold: on the one hand, the article shows that contemporary art's valuation practices increasingly reflect the logic of...

Based on substantial curatorial and academic research, the book proposes a new narrative for art produced globally from the 1990s to the present day: that art gradually shifted from an emphasis on cultural subjects associated with postmodernism to an exploration of economic relations. In an...

"This volume engages in a wide-ranging investigation of what speculation can mean and how, and what is at stake for artistic, curatorial critical and institutional practices in relating to their own speculative character."

Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. 3.5 Artistic Strategies to Envision Money's Mediation -- 2. 6 Artists x 2 Crises x 3 Orders of Reproduction -- 3. 0 Participation: Benign Pessimism, Tactical Parasitics and the Encrypted Common -- 4. ∞ Encryption: Art's...