Crash (Speed as Engine of Individuation)

Schnapp, Jeffrey T.

doi:10.1353/mod.1999.0010

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“…As a kinetic prosthesis (Schnapp 1999), the computer gives the advantage player agency and authorship, enabling them to traverse the online gambling landscape. Embodied in their e-cash, the advantage player seeks out (risky) opportunities in which to invest and turn a profit:…”

Section: Advantage Play Edgework Activity and Agencymentioning

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Edging your bets: Advantage play, gambling, crime and victimisation

Banks

2012

Crime, Media, Culture

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Consumerism, industrial development and regulatory liberalisation have underpinned the ascendance of gambling to a mainstream consumption practice. In particular, the online gambling environment has been marketed as a site of 'safe risks' where citizens can engage in a multitude of different forms of aleatory consumption. This paper offers a virtual ethnography of an online 'advantage play' subculture. It demonstrates how advantage players have reinterpreted the online gambling landscape as an environment saturated with crime and victimisation. In this virtual world, advantage play is no longer simply an instrumental act concerned with profit accumulation to finance consumer desires. Rather, it acts as an opportunity for individuals to engage in a unique form of edgework, whereby the threat to one's well-being is tested through an ability to avoid crime and victimisation. This paper demonstrates how mediated environments may act as sites for edgeworking and how the potential for victimisation can be something that is actively engaged with.

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Section: Advantage Play Edgework Activity and Agencymentioning

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Edging your bets: Advantage play, gambling, crime and victimisation

Banks

2012

Crime, Media, Culture

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“…In a rich and suggestive account of the myth of speed in modern culture Jeffrey Schnapp has argued that ‘accelerated motion’ may be one of the ‘heroic themes’ of modernity, but it was not an invention of the modern era. Schnapp traces the cultural history of speed back to pre‐motorized forms of transport such as horse‐drawn coaches and suggests that ‘the entanglement of modern notions of subjecthood with experiences of accelerated motion’ derives from these origins (Schnapp, 1999: 4). What is distinctive about the phenomenon of speed in the early twentieth century, according to Schnapp, is the consolidation of two forms of automobility around 1900.…”

Section: Modernism and Transportmentioning

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Traffic, Gender, Modernism

Thacker¹

2006

The Sociological Review

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“…Because of his ability to act and interact at network speed, the volatility and speed with which money moves in the market entered this investors’ field of perception for the first time. In this way, the computer gives birth to what I call the kinematic investor, who embraces speed “as a kind of drug, an intensifier, an exitant moderne” (Schnapp, 1999, p. 3), because in front of the market‐on‐the‐screen “the investor becomes the author and administrator of his or her speed” (Schnapp, 1999, p. 7, my emphasis). Seeing the market is particularly important to the investor because vision is required to navigate.…”

Section: The Aesthetics Of the Marketmentioning

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“…Comments such as these make it evident that a sense of agency and authorship of one’s actions in the market has an effect on the experience of investing. While making money remains important to the investor, taking risks and having fun become additional elements of the online investing experience when the computer becomes the investor’s kinetic prosthesis (Schnapp, 1999) for acting on, and interacting with, the market.…”

Section: Investing As Edgeworkmentioning

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Where the Action Is: Internet Stock Trading as Edgework

Zwick

2005

J Comp Mediated Comm

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This article puts forth the argument that with the transfer of stock trading from what could be called an analog world of phone calls, faxes, and trips to the local bank, to the computer‐mediated environment of the computer screen, the market becomes the site for new types of individual experiences and practices that cannot be predicted, captured, or understood with existing economic and finance theories. Specifically, by giving the stock market an interactionally or response‐present face‐in‐action (Knorr, Cetina & Bruegger, 2002b), the computer screen alters investors’ conventional relationship with, and perception of, the market. It is suggested that the market‐on‐the‐screen gives birth to the market as a place for edgeworking (Lyng, 1990), or experiencing risk as an end in itself. A prerequisite for edgework is a real sense of agency, afforded to the individual investor, for the first time in history, by the computer.

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Crash (Speed as Engine of Individuation)

Cited by 71 publications

References 18 publications

Edging your bets: Advantage play, gambling, crime and victimisation

Edging your bets: Advantage play, gambling, crime and victimisation

Traffic, Gender, Modernism

Where the Action Is: Internet Stock Trading as Edgework

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