Cognition in High-Frequency Trading: The Costs of Consciousness and the Limits of Automation

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Certain strands of contemporary media theory are concerned with the ways in which computational environments exploit the ‘missing half-second’ of human perception and thereby influence, control or exploit humans at an affective level. The ‘technological unconscious’ of our times is often understood to work at this affective level, and high-frequency trading is regularly provided as a primary illustrative example of the contagious dynamics it produces. We challenge and complicate this account of the relation between consciousness, affect and media technologies by drawing on the recent work of N. Katherine Hayles and by focusing in detail on the ways in which the ‘costs of consciousness’ are accounted for and negotiated in high-frequency trading. We suggest that traders actively develop modes of awareness accounting for the costs of consciousness, and that the necessary ‘stupidity’ of high-frequency trading algorithms as well as competition pose limits to the full automation of financial markets.

Titel in ÜbersetzungKognition im Hochfrequenzhandel: Die Kosten von Bewusstsein und die Grenzen der Automatisierung
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftTheory, Culture and Society
Jahrgang35
Ausgabenummer6
Seiten (von - bis)75-95
Anzahl der Seiten21
ISSN0263-2764
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 01.11.2018
Extern publiziertJa

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