The heterodox positions of Elie Ayache and Suhail Malik on contemporary finance are often perceived, if not discussed more broadly, in the vapor circles of accelerationism. Let us first turn to Suhail Malik’s prosition. For us, the contingent price movements …
Elie Ayaches and Suhail Malik’s Heterodox Conceptions of Finance: The Delirium of Contingency
Critchley recounts an interesting story about Bataille, Merleau-Ponty, Ayer and Ambrosini (a physicist influenced by Bataille) sitting in a bar at 2 a.m., Bataille’s lecture “The Consequences of Nonknowledge” scheduled for the next morning (cf. Critchley 2008). Suddenly Ayer – …
In ancient times religion was a form of binding, obligation, and bond between the divine and human. After the Enlightenment this binding was severed, and irreligion cut the bonds or knots that held the human to its objective sense of …
Speculative Posthumanism: The Inhuman Core of Speculative Non-Metaphysics
I wrote before about the anti-computer. Let me continue some of those themes, using instead an adjacent label, the uncomputer. In an initial sense, the uncomputer comes out of whatever is subordinated or excluded as a result of the standard …
The heterodox positions of Elie Ayache and Suhail Malik on contemporary finance are often perceived in the haze of accelerationism, although not widely discussed. Let us first turn to the prosition of Suhail Malik. For us, the contingent price movements …
Elie Ayaches and Suhail Malik’s heterodox concepts of finance: the frenzy of contingency
Since the mid-2000s, financial markets have been subjected to an unprecedented critical scrutiny, particularly in light of ‘black swan events’ such as the supposedly unpredictable Global Financial Crisis, and algorithmic ‘accidents’ such as the Flash Crash of May …
Fundamentals of Algorithmic Markets: Liquidity, Contingency, and the Incomputability of Exchange
… Conclusion To understand the statement “Time is money”, who should we ask: a taxi driver, who has lived and breathed its truth every day, or some greasy graduate student who has read lots and lots of Deleuze? Like it …