Is attention really immaterial? Visual culture after post-Fordism

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Virality, informatics, and critique; or, can there be such a thing as radical computation?

'This essay, which is deeply indebted to the approach set out by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello in The New Spirit of Capitalism and taken up by Nancy Fraser in her commanding “Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History,” aims to interrogate certain notions of radical political practice and the theoretical models that might be derived from them in the context of post-Fordist, neoliberal economics and the ubiquitous informatic culture that is tightly bound up with it.' (Taken from the article pp.153-4.

Influential Article Review – Applying Statistics in Stock Market Decision

This paper examines the stock market. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: Forecasting stock returns is extremely challenging in general, and this task becomes even more difficult given the turbulent nature of the Chinese stock market. We address the stock selection process as a statistical learning problem and build cross-sectional forecast models to select individual stocks in the Shanghai Composite Index. Decile portfolios are formed according to rankings of the forecasted future cumulative returns. The equity market’s neutral portfolio—formed by buying the top decile portfolio and selling short the bottom decile portfolio—exhibits superior performance to, and a low correlation with, the Shanghai Composite Index. To make our strategy more useful to practitioners, we evaluate the proposed stock selection strategy’s performance by allowing only long positions, and by investing only in A-share stocks to incorporate the restrictions in the Chinese stock market. The long-only strategies still generate robust and superior performance compared to the Shanghai Composite Index. A close examination of the coefficients of the features provides more insights into the changes in market dynamics from period to period. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German

Humans and/as Machines:Beckett and Cultural Cybernetics

This essay engages with the aesthetics and politics of digitality through a parallel study of Samuel Beckett's writing and the development of the electronic digital computer. By placing these distinct threads in parallel, the essay argues that the digital logic of command and control, in which the experienced world and the possibilities for future action are parsed, formulated as text and expressed as sets of discrete algorithms, represents an emerging mode of thought that must be traced through textual as well as technical practices from the mid-twentieth century onwards. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC

Notes on Digital Community and Revolution

This essay addresses the forms of utopian imagination that are produced when concepts such as society, community, and revolution are rendered using computational and communicational metaphors. By connecting recent phenomena such as the notion of “Twitter revolution” and Sheryl Sandberg's ongoing Lean In project to a longer genealogy of cybernetic imaginaries, capitalist economism, and governmentality, the author questions the assumptions and occlusions that result when sociality and digitality are conflated.</jats:p

In light of thought

A contribution to '30@30: the future of literary thinking'