Speculative Finance and Predatory Abstraction: On Jonas Eika’s “After the Sun”
Ali Rıza Taşkale analyzes the way Jonas Eika’s short story collection “After the Sun” critiques speculative finance and offers new ways to imagine...
Ali Rıza Taşkale is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University. His research has been published in journals such as Utopian Studies, Distinktion, Thesis Eleven, Rethinking Marxism, Northern Lights, New Political Science, Contemporary Political Theory, Third Text, Theory, Culture & Society, and Journal for Cultural Research. His book Post-Politics in Context is published by Routledge (2016). Currently, he serves on the editorial board of Distinktion, overseeing special issues and the forum exchange section. Taşkale is actively engaged in a project exploring the logical and structural relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance.
Ali Rıza Taşkale analyzes the way Jonas Eika’s short story collection “After the Sun” critiques speculative finance and offers new ways to imagine...