HEИндивидуална стипендия2022–2025

SF-SF · Speculative Fiction/Speculative Finance: Fighting for the Future

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-11-01 → 2025-10-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 214 934 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Speculative Fiction/Speculative Finance: Fighting for the Future

The SF-SF: Fighting for the Future fellowship explored how speculative fiction intersects with financial and technological systems, examining the ways in which imagined futures shape real-world socio-technical and economic processes. Modern societies face unprecedented challenges from the rapid integration of digital technologies, algorithmic finance, and emerging artificial intelligence systems. These developments raise urgent questions about governance, ethics, inequality, and societal resilience—problems that cannot be fully understood through traditional disciplinary lenses. This project addressed these challenges by combining social sciences, humanities, and narrative analysis. Using speculative fiction as both a research lens and a method, the project traced how cultural imaginaries of finance and technology influence policy, corporate decision-making, and public perceptions. By integrating qualitative research with theoretical analysis, the fellowship aimed to produce knowledge that is both academically rigorous and socially relevant. The main objectives were: To develop a robust interdisciplinary framework linking speculative fiction, finance, and socio-technical systems. To generate research outputs that advance understanding of how elites in technology and finance shape global economic and social structures. To translate scholarly insights into public debate, media engagement, and policy-relevant knowledge. To mentor the next generation of researchers and foster international academic collaboration. The project pathway to impact combined high-level academic dissemination with broad societal engagement. Research outputs—including journal articles, a monograph, and public essays—were complemented by workshops, international talks, and media appearances, ensuring that findings reached both scholarly and non-academic audiences. By making research openly accessible and engaging with public and policy actors, the fellowship maximized its potential impact on debates about technology, finance, and society. The project’s expected impacts are significant at multiple levels: Academic impact: advancing interdisciplinary approaches in social sciences and humanities, developing new methods to study socio-technical futures, and strengthening the integration of narrative analysis into political and economic research. Societal impact: improving public understanding of complex financial and technological systems, informing debates on responsible technology governance, and contributing to democratic decision-making processes. Strategic impact: supporting policymakers, NGOs, and civil society in navigating socio-technical transformations, while promoting open science and international collaboration. Overall, this fellowship demonstrates the value of integrating social sciences and humanities into research on pressing contemporary challenges, using imaginative inquiry to illuminate the connections between culture, finance, and technology and to inform socially responsible futures.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

When speculation becomes the dominant modality of contemporary capitalism, what happens to speculative fiction? What kind of worldbuilding does speculative finance do, and, once we acknowledge its narrative features, how might we use the tools of speculative fiction to intervene in this process? Can speculative fiction help us recognise the ways in which speculative finance takes effect and, from that vantage point, reveal the contradictions of financial speculation and the possibilities that lie hidden within the present? Through close analyses of novels and films, SF-SF explores the degree to which speculative finance and speculative fiction operate according to similar narrative and imaginative strategies, and how they remain distinct. Its purpose is twofold: firstly, it explores how the logic of financialisation relies on fictions whose representations materialise the worlds it envisions. Secondly, it explores a better understanding of how speculative fiction can make legible finance’s fictions and reveal its underlying contradictions. By employing critical literary analysis and symptomatology as methods, SF-SF will thus result in a better understanding of how speculative finance seeks to narrow and constrain the possibilities for the future, and how speculative fiction challenges speculative finance’s ongoing attempt to configure all aspects of political and social life in economic terms.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ROSKILDE UNIVERSITET · RoskildeКоординаторДания