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Volatility of an Impossible Object

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Free
Published
10/2012
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Volatility of an Impossible Object: Risk, Fear, and Safety in Games of Perception

The Volatility of an Impossible Object is your own changing perception of risk. The global financial markets walk on the razor's edge of empiricism and what you see is not what you think, and what you think may very well be impossible anyway. The impossible object in art is an illustration that highlights the limitations of human perception and is an appropriate construct for our modern capitalist dystopia. Modern financial markets are a game of impossible objects. In a world where global central banks manipulate the cost of risk, the mechanics of price discovery have disengaged from reality resulting in paradoxical expressions of value that should not exist according to efficient market theory. Fear and safety are now interchangeable in a speculative and high stakes game of perception.