Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas traces the slang of financial traders — hectocorns, dark pools, daisy chains — to expose the ecological and mythological fictions embedded in the language that materially reshapes our world.
About This Book
Finance has its own ecology, and its language proves it. Traders speak of whales and poison pills, of fledglings taken to the moon and disappearing into dark pools. Editors Eline Benjaminsen and Dayna Casey take this slang seriously as a site of inquiry, reading between the financial idiom and the natural world it borrows from to surface a dense mythological substrate. The result is a work that connects geofinancial systems to the stories — absurd, violent, and strangely poetic — that sustain them. Essential reading for those interested in the intersection of finance, ecology, and critical spatial theory.
Key Features
- 344 pages of critical essays and lexical analysis examining financial slang and its ecological entanglements
- Edited by Eline Benjaminsen and Dayna Casey
- Published by Spector Books, ISBN: 9783959058490
What You'll Discover
- How financial slang — from hectocorns to poison pills — constructs a parallel ecological mythology with real material consequences
- The mythological and folkloric history embedded within the everyday language of traders and financial professionals
- The relationship between financial abstraction and worldly ecology, and how language mediates that violence
- Why the "charming" fictions of finance are neither innocent nor incidental, but structurally generative of the systems they describe
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 344
- Dimensions: 14 x 22 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783959058490
- Publisher: Spector Books
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, spatial theorists, and researchers working at the intersection of financial systems, ecology, and critical geography — as well as designers engaged with the politics of capital and land.