Harnessing a DIY philosophy, it is no surprise that the advent of cryptocur­rencies has become an extension of the bottom-up narrative of re-empowering citizens. They

The following is an extract from Ellie Rennie’s lengthier Medium blogpost, which can be found here When systems get too big and powerful, people have

Radical Care: Embracing Feminist FinanceAmateur Cities and the Institute of Network Cultures present a feminist finance zine titled ‘Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance’. It is a cooperative future-thinking

The Thorny Question of Art and Economy was a staged conversation to consider the thorny question of Artists and Business anew. Rather than harnessing ‘creativity’ as a

Presented at Sarai in February 2019, Startup States was a curatorial investigation into the colonial origins of systems of biometric identification, registration, and control in India

When existing foundations collapse, start from the beginning to build stable ones.  Permaculture principles drive pilons into shifting sands, (the soft mud of the Venetian

by Pandu Sastrowardoyo I’m going to start this article off with a hackneyed, cliched, perhaps trite saying: “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And then I’m going

Feminist Finance SyllabusThis Feminist Finance Syllabus is a supplement to the Feminist Finance Zine titled Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance. It is a result of the

Send us your sightings of the Invisible Hand. The Invisible Hand is one of (neo)classical economics’ most enduring mythologies. Its magical power is to ensure

Extract from M. Fourcade & K. Healy, ‘Seeing like a Market’, Socio-Economic Review, 2016, Vol. 0, No. 0, 1–21

“Under the guise of education and community service, the Commonwealth Bank has been grooming successive generations of customers for decades. Dishonesty, greed and blatant customer

Kate Tomas is a spiritual empowerment mentor and psychic, who works with women and non-binary people to enhance the quality of their lives. She completed

https://www.bitlisten.com/ Realtime Bitcoin transaction visualizer. (Formerly ‘Listen To Bitcoin’). Most donations get highlighted: 1istendqWJ1mKvrdRUQZDL2F3tVDDyKdj By Maximillian Laumeister • Contact • Source Code

As the global financial crisis proceeds, not only the capitalist system is being questioned, but also money itself.More and more people start to explore alternative

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The Labour never finishes — it transforms, orients itself towardsnew objects. In this sense, it also never quite begins, for there wasalways an earlier labour

A century ago, “information” did not have much cultural resonance as a concept. It was a nondescript word: “An item of training; an instruction.” Yet

The RADMIN Reader is a short collection of tricks, loops, swerves and contemplation on the administrative, edited by Kate Rich and Angela Piccini. Stapling together

The White Possessive (extract) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson Possession: the act or fact of possessing; the state of being possessed; ownership; Law actual holding or occupancy,

This scrap re-publishes text extracts from Ailie Rutherford’s website and The Social Art Library , in both cases with the artist’s permission. String Figures takes

I like to think (andthe sooner the better!)of a cybernetic meadowwhere mammals and computerslive together in mutuallyprogramming harmonylike pure watertouching clear sky. I like to

This article from 2019 was part of Vanessa Bartlett’s ongoing research into technological imaginaries of persuasive design. It was originally commissioned by Cognitive Sensations and

https://supermarkt-berlin.net/en/documentation/money-talks/ The MONEY TALKS-series presents alternative money systems, community currencies and sustainable cryptos. Our first Money Talk featured Karim Chabrak, founder of www.coinsence.org. Coinsence is non-profit platform

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