finance and money

Publication

Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance–Feminist Finance Syllabus

The Feminist Finance Syllabus ponders how to embrace alternative values in economies by focusing on locality, cooperation, and caring. Feminist Finance Syllabus is a supplement to the Feminist Finance Zine titled Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance. It is a result of the Twitter conversations that took place during three launch events of the zine between […]
Publication

Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance–Feminist Finance Zine

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 […]
Article: The Unmasters

Play and Imagination Against Debt

We spoke about debt and imagination to Steyn Bergs and Cassie Thornton during Moneylab #3 – Failing Better? in two separate conversations, addressing a set of the same questions from two different perspectives. The final format of this interview as a conversation has a comparative purpose and should not be read as an actual record of […]
Publication
MoneyLab#3 Failing Better program booklet

Moneylab #3 Failing Better

A series of double interviews on financial surveillance, platform cooperativism and distributed ownership, perceptions of value, debt, and playfulness. Conducted in the framework of the Moneylab #3 conference, this series of double interviews brought together six speakers to discuss a number of issues connected to the conference topic. Under the title “Failing Better”, Moneylab #3 […]
Article: Critical Imagination
Feature Image: Kevin Dooley, Paper Money, Extreme Macro, CC BY 2.0

The Four Faces of Financialization: Cities as a Site of Struggle

In spite of describing an important set of social and economic transformations, the word financialization has become used so frequently and in so many contradictory ways, that it risks becoming as fragile and confusing as other recent buzz-words like globalization, neoliberalism and gentrification. Yet the forces at work behind the term are real and have […]
Research

Feminist Economies Collective

We create contexts to break the crisis of imagination in capitalist realism. Together with others, we imagine futures, in which shared values are no longer primarily appropriated for profit and accumulation of wealth but open up new perspectives on economic realities. Through this process, we build fragments of new worlds based on feminist values, facilitating […]
Article: Wishful Thinking

Microbial Money – Stock Analysis

The current finance and banking system is often considered unchangeable and uncontrollable. It is often mystified and presented as having a life on its own. Could other ways of looking at finance help us see the flaws that rule it, independently of the form it takes? What if we imagined money as living organisms? What […]
Article: The Unmasters

The Price of Surveillance

We spoke about the price of surveillance to Emily Rosamond and Arthur Röing Baer during Moneylab #3 – Failing Better?. CA: Could you introduce yourselves – what do you do and what are your main interests? ER: I’m Emily Rosamond. I’m an artist, writer and lecturer of Fine Art Theory at the Arts University Bournemouth. I […]
Article: Wishful Thinking

Treasure Island

Inspired by freeports where collectors store valuable artworks without paying taxes, Skye Yuxi Sun imagined a series of repository private islands in the River Thames. She pictured a place where the future extra-rich would  store, what could be the ultimate symbol of total triumph over life, death and nature – resurrected extinct animals. Even the […]
Article: Wishful Thinking
Larisa-Bulibasa_The Labyrinth of the city of London

The Labyrinth of the City of London

In Greek mythology the Labyrinth was a palace extremely difficult to navigate and almost impossible to escape from. Would there be a more suitable metaphor to describe the City of London, the heart of the world’s financial sector? This labyrinth is composed gradually: each addition contributes to the sense of disorientation of the financial workers […]