Speculative Finance and Network Temporality in Duncan Jones's Moon and Source Code

Abstract

AT T H E H E A R T O F S P E C U L A T I V E F I N A N C E A N D G L O B A L I Z A T I O N E X I S T S A grand contradiction. While globalization, financial derivatives, and digital networks have created a system that circulates capital and distributes risks to create stability and protect against financial losses, these forces have also brought instability to local regions and populations as people experience the wild fluctuations of national currencies, increased price volatility in commodities, and a strong sense of inefficacy from their governments to affect their own economies. Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee state that “technologically-driven derivatives” have separated out value, wealth, and the cost of money in the exchange and transaction process from, “from the state of production, the social welfare of the producers, and the political needs of