[ecrea] Institute of Network Cultures presents second MoneyLab Reader: Overcoming the Hype

www.networkcultures.org/moneylab <http://www.networkcultures.org/moneylab>

MoneyLab is a network of artists, activists, and geeks experimenting 
with forms of financial democratization. Entering the 10^th  year of the 
global financial crisis, it still remains a difficult yet crucial task 
to distinguish old wine from its fancy new bottles. Founded in 2013, the 
MoneyLab network questions persistent beliefs, from Calvinist austerity, 
growth, and up-scaling, to trustless, automated decision making and 
(anarcho-)capitalist dreams of cybercurrencies and blockchained solutionism.

We consider experiments with digital coops, internet-based payment and 
network-based revenue models as spaces of political imagination, with an 
equally important aesthetic program. In this second MoneyLab Reader the 
network delves into topics like the financialization of art; love as a 
binary proposition on the blockchain; the crowdfunding of livelihood; 
the cashless society; financial surveillance of the poor; universal 
basic income as the real McCoy or a real sham; the cooperative answer to 
Airbnb and Uber; the history of your financial dashboard; and, 
Hollywood’s narration of the financial crisis. Fintech rushes through 
our veins, causing a whirlwind of critical concepts, ideas and 
imaginaries. Welcome to the eye of the storm.

Contributors: Jaya Klara Brekke, Tripta Chandola, Max Dovey, Economic 
Space Agency, General Intellect, Max Haiven, Robert Herian, David 
Hollanders, Dmytri Kleiner, Silvio Lorusso, Laura Lotti, Nathalie 
Maréchal, Rachel O’Dwyer, Nina Power, Patricia Reed, Patrice Riemens, 
Emily Rosamond, Trebor Scholz, Brett Scott, Nathaniel Tkacz, Pablo R. 
Velasco, Martin Zeilinger.

Editors: Inte Gloerich, Geert Lovink and Patricia de Vries, Institute of 
Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018.

Download the pdf or epub here:
http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/moneylab-reader-2-overcoming-the-hype/

MoneyLab blog: http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/

Order your free paper copy here:
http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/order-moneylab-reader-2/


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