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Set in a in a sprawling, clockwork metropolis, groaning with a slop of “[[solutions]]” — generic grey entropic, over-engineered minutiae — and in a fluctuating spacetime that [[waiver]]s crazily between the [[present]], [[future]] and [[past]] (Barkley went so far as to invent a whole new tense, the “plumperfect present”, to deal with events which, he said, could only be located probabilistically at a given point in time) ''The Atlantis Variation'' revolves around one queasy weekend in September 2008. | Set in a in a sprawling, clockwork metropolis, groaning with a slop of “[[solutions]]” — generic grey entropic, over-engineered minutiae — and in a fluctuating spacetime that [[waiver]]s crazily between the [[present]], [[future]] and [[past]] (Barkley went so far as to invent a whole new tense, the “plumperfect present”, to deal with events which, he said, could only be located probabilistically at a given point in time) ''The Atlantis Variation'' revolves around one queasy weekend in September 2008. | ||
[[Lloyd T. Graeber]], a junior officer in the FIA’s netting squad, when running down an aleatory contract in Luxembourg, stumbles a conspiracy orchestrated by a malign secret [[Clavam Hominum Senum Pallidorum|secret society of stuffy old men]], working in the bowels of the great institutions of their day, called “Project Atlantis”. Their plan is to undermine the derivatives trading universe by unleashing a new, artificially intelligent master trading agreement, the [[2008 ISDA | [[Lloyd T. Graeber]], a junior officer in the FIA’s netting squad, when running down an aleatory contract in Luxembourg, stumbles a conspiracy orchestrated by a malign secret [[Clavam Hominum Senum Pallidorum|secret society of stuffy old men]], working in the bowels of the great institutions of their day, called “Project Atlantis”. Their plan is to undermine the derivatives trading universe by unleashing a new, artificially intelligent master trading agreement, the [[2008 ISDA Decentralised Automomous Agreement]], known under its working title as ''The Atlantis Variation''. | ||
According to Barkley’s dystopian vision, the {{2008ma}} would be a definitive, final, [[flawed asset|flawless]]<ref>There was to be no Section {{isdaprov|2(a)(iii)}}</ref> self-aware edition of the {{isdama}}. Short, plainly worded, future-proofed and agile, it would allow counterparties to agree robust trading terms with little fuss and only the cursory clerical management delivered through unskilled personnel in low-cost jurisdictions and, eventually, [[chatbot]]s. | According to Barkley’s dystopian vision, the {{2008ma}} would be a definitive, final, [[flawed asset|flawless]]<ref>There was to be no Section {{isdaprov|2(a)(iii)}}</ref> self-aware edition of the {{isdama}}. Short, plainly worded, future-proofed and agile, it would allow counterparties to agree robust trading terms with little fuss and only the cursory clerical management delivered through unskilled personnel in low-cost jurisdictions and, eventually, [[chatbot]]s. | ||