The Feminist Finance Zine is a diverse collection of voices introducing you to those ideas about finance that lie outside of our current economic paradigm. It invites you to think about how, individually and together, we could put them into practice.
Today we live in a world that is dominated by an economic system that is global, competitive, and centered around a rational and egoistic vision of the human (homo economicus). InRadical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance we asked ourselves and over twenty contributors how we can embrace different values focusing on locality, cooperation, and caring. Can an affective and compassionate vision of the human get us closer to homo reciprocans or cooperans? How can we break out of the crisis of imagination, and as Lana Swartz and Martin Zeilinger propose, move towards the crisis of implementation? How we can navigate the relations of exchange and trust between humans and machines, but also, our relationship with the environment? Can we finally not only recognize the climate catastrophe but also find ways to act against it, through an economic lens, mindful of not reproducing patriarchal and colonial histories? As Denise Thwaites notes, this work starts with careful and respectful listening to voices that have long been silenced. In the words of Ruth Catlow and Reijer Hendrikse: history is not over, we are just beginning!
How can we break out of the crisis of imagination and move towards the crisis of implementation?
Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance is a cooperative future-thinking effort from the MoneyLab network, a collective of artists, designers, researchers, geeks, and activists dedicated to the task of experimenting with more equitable, diverse, and sustainable futures for finance and the economy. The zine is a diverse collection of voices organized into three types of contributions: quickfire interviews (short reactions to big questions), double interviews (conversational long reads), and artworks (projects addressing discussed subjects visually). It has been conceived as a collaboration between Amateur Cities and the Institute of Network Cultures.
We hope this zine will inspire you and those around you to think about alternative ways in which we could organize our economies. We highly encourage you to share it and let it reach new places. For that reason, we attached a travel record card as a cover. Please keep it in motion and get in touch!