TOPICS
Session 1: Decolonising Money
Decolonising Money: Colonial Impulses, Economic Autonomy and Systems Sovereignty Contemporary global financial networks are imbued with the logic of settler-colonialism. The imperial accumulation of wealth
Session 2: Decentralized Islands and Techno-Empires
Decentralised Islands and Techno-Empires: Transforming Economies of the Asia Pacific The ‘Asia-Pacific Turn’ as a shift in our global economic and geopolitical axis has attained
Session 3: _Underscored Economics_
_Underscored Economics_: Trading Re-Authored Currencies The semiotics of the underscore allow it to break, connect and/or emphasise defined terms. A remnant of mechanical word processing,
Session 4: Homo Ecologicus
Homo Ecologicus: Money Between Economy and Ecology The image of Homo Economicus underpins the ubiquity of neo-classical economics, delineating the possibilities of exchange for humans conceived as
Session 5: Financial Charismatics
Financial Charismatics: Language, Memes and the Seduction of (New) Money Charisma – a word used to describe an allure that inspires devotion, its charm originally understood
Session 6: Impermanent Infrastructures
Impermanent Infrastructures: The Capricious Commerce of Digital Culture Despite international and national level investments in securing ‘digital heritage’, the infrastructures to support creative practices, subcultures