Foreword / Carin Kuoni 10

Speculation, Now / Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao 14

Design Notes / Prem Krishnamurthy 26

Visible and Invisible Sides of Reproduction / Boris Groys 33

Dreams, Magic, and Mirrors: More Histories of Extraversion and Speculation in Central Africa / Filip De Boeck 40

Hedge/Hog: Speculative Action in Financial Markets / Satya Pemmaraju 52

Preface to the third edition / Walid Raad 60

The Ethics of Deep Time / Trevor Paglen 70

Colors, Cash, Fabric, and Trim: Fast-fashion Families in Downtown L.A. / Christina Moon 73

Synchronicities / Sherene Schostak 86

Post-Racial America? Addressing Racial Inequality / Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr. 92

Psychics Special / Lin + Lam 104

Speculation with Data: Remittances, Refugees, and Migration / Laura Kurgan 112

Diary: Towards an Architecture of Balkanization / Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss 122

Image: Visual Speculation and Political Change / Victoria Hattam 139

Night Thoughts: Unintended Consequences in the Modern Economy / Mary Poovey 142

On the Matter of Change: Three Scenes of Collective Action / Robert Sember 146

over/sight / Lize Mogul 156

The Barzakh of the Image and the Speculative Scene of Possession / Stefania Pandolfo 168

Taking a Trip / Gary Lincoff 188

The Paradox of Beginnings / Angie Keefer and Lucy Skaer 204

Speculation, After the Fact / Arjun Appadurai 206

!?!?. . . / Hans Haacke 210

Speculation Now: The Expanded Field 220

Biographies 234

Acknowledgments 250

Vera List Center for Art and Politics 252

Considering Forgiveness 254

Index 256

Photo Credits 270

Colophon 272

"[A]n eloquent and intricate political work of art and writing."
  — Marc Tremblay, Broken Pencil

"[A]n eloquent and intricate political work of art and writing."
  —Marc Tremblay, Broken Pencil

"Speculation can only occur in the course of action, in the heat of practice, in the thick of experience. [It] is immanent critique, insofar as it does not seek to distance itself from experience but rather to intervene . . . through a particular form of disciplined action. Hannah Arendt famously distinguished action from behavior, by remarking that genuine action begins something new in the world. So does speculation, as the many projects, art works, and arguments in this book so vividly illustrate." — Arjun Appadurai, from the foreword

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