Real Fake (under advance contract with MIT Press)
What if truth, under capitalism, begins in distortion?
Image of ‘financial alchemy’ generated through Open AI
This project explores how contemporary finance reshapes the conditions under which truth is produced, sensed, and contested. In a world saturated with noise, speculation, and volatile signals, markets do not reflect reality—they generate it. From futures trading to algorithmic pricing, financial mechanisms fabricate the coordinates of truth, producing beliefs that are both actionable and unstable.
REAL FAKE advances a new critique of capitalism, developing a theory of distortion that moves beyond deception. It traces how prices function as truth-claims, how financial noise becomes politically productive, and how speculation sustains new regimes of certainty and doubt. Rather than chasing clarity in an age of disinformation, the book shows how distortion becomes a method for navigating crisis—and a force shaping collective life.
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