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Abstraction and Value: The Medieval Origins of Financial Quantification

Chapter of: Speculative Medievalisms: Discography(pp. 73–91)

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TitleAbstraction and Value
SubtitleThe Medieval Origins of Financial Quantification
ContributorNick Srnicek(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0021.1.09
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculative-medievalisms/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightSrnicek, Nick
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2013-01-17
Long abstractWe live in an era plagued by the debilitating fallout of finan-cial implosion. By now credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, options, futures, and other “financial weap-ons of mass destruction” have all entered into the common lexicon. While the economically speculative nature of finance is abundantly clear, the philosophically speculative nature of finance is less well recognized. Perhaps surprisingly, it is in finance that we find the purest attempt at the quantification of all available material, to an extent conceivably greater than even modern natural science. Empirical and non-empirical, actual and possible, order and chaos—all are available for measurement and calculation within the algorithms of mod-ern financial models.
Page rangepp. 73–91
Print length19 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Nick Srnicek

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London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9581-1620