Figuring Violence
Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis
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"Finance Fictions is a remarkable achievement. Arne De Boever blends detailed attention to high finance with close readings of an unexpected array of contemporary novels. Along the way he touches on work by many of the leading figures in contemporary literary studies and theory, from American Psycho to Quentin Meillassoux's writings on science fiction. The book offers an original and necessary perspective on the fate of the realist novel in an age of collateralized debt obligations, and raises provocative questions about what De Boever calls the 'financialization of the novel itself.'"-David G...
"Finance Fictions is a remarkable achievement. Arne De Boever blends detailed attention to high finance with close readings of an unexpected array of contemporary novels. Along the way he touches on work by many of the leading figures in contemporary literary studies and theory, from American Psycho to Quentin Meillassoux's writings on science fiction. The book offers an original and necessary perspective on the fate of the realist novel in an age of collateralized debt obligations, and raises provocative questions about what De Boever calls the 'financialization of the novel itself.'"-David Golumbia, author of The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining a tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political crisis, and austerity? De Boever argues that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel fit for digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record. If in 1989, Tom Wolfe could still urge novelists to "tame the billion-footed beast of reality," today's economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading of popular novels and conceptual writing, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy-an "if" whose implications turn out to be deeply political. Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and critical work on finance in the twenty-first century. Arne De Boever is Faculty in the School of Critical Studies and Director of the Aesthetics and Politics program at the California Institute of the Arts.
