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Özgün Eylül İşcen
Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism
The Irreducible Other of Computational Capital
Given the prospect of post-oil futures, this chapter historically situates contemporary Gulf Futurism within cybernetic and logistical aspirations underlying the current global trend of the smartness mandate. Working through the complex visuality that the cybernetic black box animates, the chapter revisits Fredric Jameson’s cognitive mapping as an allegorical model for the inherent frictions of computational capital. To this end, it discusses Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri’s artistic practice that reclaims a right to speculate while condensing material reality and imaginative threads, thereby going beyond a mere gesture of unveiling or mapping.
Keywords: Gulf Futurism; Smartness Mandate; Ubiquitous computing; Post-oil Futures; Black box; Cybernetics; Logistics; Cognitive Mapping
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Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism
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The Irreducible Other of Computational Capital
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Özgün Eylül İşcen
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Given the prospect of post-oil futures, this chapter historically situates contemporary Gulf Futurism within cybernetic and logistical aspirations underlying the current global trend of the smartness mandate. Working through the complex visuality that the cybernetic black box animates, the chapter revisits Fredric Jameson’s cognitive mapping as an allegorical model for the inherent frictions of computational capital. To this end, it discusses Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri’s artistic practice that reclaims a right to speculate while condensing material reality and imaginative threads, thereby going beyond a mere gesture of unveiling or mapping.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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11 October 2022
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Gulf Futurism
Smartness Mandate
Ubiquitous computing
Post-oil Futures
Black box
Cybernetics
Logistics
Cognitive Mapping
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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91
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115
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The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 91–115
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Cite as:
Özgün Eylül İşcen, ‘Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism: The Irreducible Other of Computational Capital’, in The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 91-115 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_05>