Speculation : a cultural history from Aristotle to AI /
"Few activities or concepts are as maligned or as celebrated as speculation. Speculators cast implausible, seemingly contagious money-making schemes into the future, and their unsubstantiated risks leave untold amounts of collateral damage. At the same time, speculation mediates between the see...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- The Mirror and the Watchtower
- Experimenting on Thought
- Gambling on a Word
- America the Speculative
- Speculitis, or the Technologies of Prophecy
- The Lady Speculator
- Conclusion: Speculative Risks, Inhuman Imagination.