Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309360 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Finance and Society [ISSN:] 2059-5999 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 126-143
Publisher: 
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Abstract: 
The work of the artist and writer Gerald Nestler explores finance and its social implications since the mid-1990s. Based on his professional experience as a trader as well as on post- disciplinary research, he has developed a unique approach that brings together theory and conversation with installation, video, performance, text, and other art forms. Probing into the narrative structures of contemporary capitalism, Nestler offers a techno-political critique directly from the core of the financial markets. This interview addresses his reading of the derivative as a world-producing apparatus that shapes the experience of the present by preconfiguring the future, and that provokes a shift from representational to performative speech in the actualization of biopower based on the exploitation of volatility and leverage. In conversation with Christian Kloeckner and Stefanie Mueller, he argues for the formation of specific human/non-human alliances that directly attack algorithmic as well as socio- economic black-boxing (schemes that monopolize inherently non-scarce resources), so as to open our imagination to skills and tactics that would allow us to navigate the rich but volatile flows of social, political, and economic abundance.
Subjects: 
Art
resolution
renegade
derivatives
volatility
leverage
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Document Type: 
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