[ecrea] "The Financialized Imagination," TOPIA 30/31 special double issue

ANNOUNCING “THE FINANCIALIZED IMAGINATION”
TOPIA: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES
SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE  (30–31, Fall 2013 / Winter 2014)

Edited by Jody Berland (York University) and Max Haiven (Nova Scotia 
College of Art and Design)

LAUNCH EVENT IN TORONTO: April 12, 5-7pm, The Melody Bar, 1214 Queen St. 
West. Free and open to the public. This is a joint launch with Max 
Haiven’s new book Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, 
Creativity and the Commons.

Since the financial sector erupted in crisis and plunged the global 
economy into turmoil, the cultural dimensions of “financialization” are 
becoming clearer. This special double issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal 
of Cultural Studies brings together a wide array of thinkers to explore 
the question of “The Financialized Imagination.” How are the cultures of 
financial accumulation produced in the secretive corridors of Wall 
Street and the complex fields of everyday life? How is cultural 
production implicated in the spread of financial ideas, metaphors, forms 
of measurement and tropes of subjectivity? How have debt, investments, 
hedged bets and securitization become discursive and material practices 
in a mediated landscape? How do film, print culture, art and television 
encode or decode financial ideas? How are literature, urban space, games 
and policy resonant or dissonant with global financial flows? How does 
financialization intersect with gender, race, class, colonialism or 
other forms of oppression? And how might we envision pathways out of and 
beyond the financialized imagination?

This issue brings together an exciting array of established and emerging 
scholars to help answer these questions.

For more information and to order subscriptions and single issues, visit 
TOPIA at http://www.yorku.ca/topia.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Max Haiven and Jody Berland - The Financialized Imagination (In Memory 
of Stuart Hall)

Articles

1. FIELDS OF SPECULATIVE POWER

John Clarke - Imagined Economies: Austerity and the Moral Economy of 
‘Fairness’

Mathias Nilges - Finance Capital and the Time of the Novel or, Money 
Without Narrative Qualities

Matthew Flisfeder - Debt: The Sublimated Object of Capital

Rob Aitken - Games and the Subjugated Knowledges of Finance: Art and 
Science in the Speculative Imaginary

2. LEVERAGED SITES

Andrew Calcutt - Fictitious Capital: London and the Financial Imagination

Cathy Greenfield and Peter Williams - From Shadowy Zone to Daily 
Routine: Finance Culture in Australia

Sarah Blacker - “Your DNA Doesn’t Need to be Your Destiny”: Colonialism, 
Public Health, and the Financialization of Medicine

Chris Arthur - Financial Literacy Education as Public Pedagogy for the 
Capitalist Debt Economy

3. FINANCIALIZED MEDIATIONS

Mark Hayward - Settling Accounts: On the Subject of Economic Confessions

Michelle Stewart and Jason Pine - Vocational Embodiments of the 
Precariat in The Girlfriend Experience and Magic Mike

Robert Hutton - The Gamification of Finance

Sarah E.K. Smith - Making Sense of the “Endless Play of Signs” in the 
Work of Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge

Jamie Lynn Magnusson and Elizabeth Abergel - The Art of 
(Bio)Surveillance: Bioart and the Financialization of Life Systems

Offerings

Michael Stein - “Do You Own an Oil Company?” A Political Consideration 
of the Financialized Subject

David E Maynard - Finding Financialization in Satire

Simon Orpana and Evan Mauro - First as Tragedy, Then as Ford: Performing 
the Biopolitical Image in the Age of Austerity, from the G20 to Toronto 
City Hall

Matthew Tiessen - Giving Credit Where Credit’s Due: Making Visible the 
Ex Nihilo Dimensions of Money’s “Agency”

Review Essays

Toni Pape - Writing Resistance: Sleeplessness, Poetry and the Right to 
the City under Financial Capitalism

Susan Pell - A Puzzle Constantly Changing Itself: Cultural Studies in 
the 21st Century

Colin J. Campbell - “Progressive” Canadian Politics and the Paroxysm of 
Identity

Reviews

Stephen Gray - Does He Know It’s Neoliberalism After All?

Paulina Mickiewicz - Deconstructing Disability

Trevor Holmes - Feasible Utopias, Frustrated

Matthew Ryan Smith - Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums

Sharday Mosurinjohn - Language, Politics and the Novel: Rancière’s 
Aesthetic History of Problem-Solving in Poetics

TOPIA provides a venue for critical research in cultural studies in 
Canada and beyond. The journal publishes original research and 
theoretical essays on culture that are accessible to a wide readership 
in the humanities and social sciences, along with critical clusters, 
offerings, and book reviews. TOPIA fosters the study of culture in 
relation to nationality, technology, nature, discourse, gender, race, 
media and the politics of space. Areas of research relevant to this 
mandate include: analysis of popular culture, visual and auditory 
culture, old and new media, and literature; the historical, 
institutional and aesthetic formation of Canadian and postcolonial 
culture; indigenous studies; cultural memory, museums, galleries, 
archives, and the fine arts; environmental cultural studies, including 
but not limited to urban environments, material cultures, biopolitics, 
city planning, architecture, landscape, human-animal relations, and 
posthumanism; technocultural and technoscience studies; global cultural 
industries; nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and the contemporary 
nation state in the era of global integration. This work is connected by 
an interdisciplinary concern with the roles played by culture in 
historical and contemporary social transformation.


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