Posts By: Geert Lovink

MoneyLab #X – Economythologies Scrapbook

By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2020

As part of our program for MoneyLab #X – Economythologies, we are embarking on a community scrapbooking project. Our aim is to develop a patchwork of ideas, images and references that explore the complexities of our contemporary economic imaginary. As the archive accumulates, data analyst and designer Shahee Ilyas will develop a creative response to [...]

MoneyLab #X Australia – Program Update

By Geert Lovink, October 14, 2020

MoneyLab #X Launch November 5th-6th 2020 Ainslie+Gorman Arts Centre, ACT & Bett Gallery, TAS Livestreaming through the aether at economythologies.network The full two-day event programme for MoneyLab #X – Economythologies is now live at www.economythologies.network. There you will find information about contributors, topics and our event program. You can also find information about our on-going [...]

MoneyLab #9 Helsinki (19-20.9.2020) program now online

By Geert Lovink, September 11, 2020

MONEYLAB #9 HELSINKI Playgrounds for Post-Capitalism 19.-20.9.2020 Oodi & Online For more up-to-date information: moneylab9.m-cult.org/. This will also be the landing page where you will find the links to the live streams. Please register here. MoneyLab is an international network of artists, hackers, designers, economists and activists who explore forms of financial democratization. MoneyLab #9 [...]

First Announcement of MoneyLab #X Economythologies (Australia)

By Geert Lovink, September 2, 2020

MoneyLab #X Economythologies Critical thinking, making and trading for the ‘New World Disorder’ Canberra/Hobart, November 5-6, 2020 “Myth is very precisely the incantation that gives rise to a world…” – Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community (1986) In a time of eco-crises, techno-uto/dystopias, disaster capitalism and necropolitics, communities the world over are compelled to examine the economic systems [...]

MoneyLab General Assembly Follow-up-Report by Nathan Nobel

By Geert Lovink, June 24, 2020

Download the report as pdf here: Final product Moneylab Looking back at MoneyLab #7: Outside of Finance, during a time wherein certainty was a comfortable concept, we can confirm that solidarity and alliance are now even more important. These are turbulent times wherein no one is excluded from the effects of the pandemic. This gives [...]

Cash, Kisses and Karaoke: Why the War on Covid must not become a War on Cash by Brett Scott

By Geert Lovink, June 3, 2020

(original here, reposted with the permission of the author) Covid-19 will be mobilised by the financial industry to push their War on Cash even further, leaving us ever more ensnared within their private digital money empire. For a number of years I have investigated– and warned about – the War on Cash. This is the [...]

Link list on bitcoin & blockchain, libra and other MoneyLab issues (part 8)

By Geert Lovink, April 8, 2020

(For the record, this is an ancient link list, from the pre-coronavirus days, remember? /GL) Virtual Non-Con Conference, April 3-5, 2020 https://noncon.org/ Is it Copernicus—exploring the decentralization of money and power https://isitcopernicus.art/ Blockdam—a decentralized autonomous experiment (from Amsterdam) https://blockdam.nl/ Comic book: Tristan Roulot et Djibril Morissette-Phan Crytpomonnaie, le futur de l’Argent (via Patrice) http://www.egeablog.net/index.php?post/2019/07/26/Cryptomonnaie-%28Morissette-et-Roulot%29 Theory [...]

Call for Papers: Deleuze & Guattari and the Economy (Rotterdam, May 14, 2020)

By Geert Lovink, February 19, 2020

Call for Papers: Deleuze & Guattari and the Economy Thursday, 14th of May 2020 in Rotterdam @ https://www.eur.nl/en/esphil/ ‘What do Deleuze and Guattari have to say about economics and the economy? After the last financial crisis — and in expectation of the next — issues concerning financialisation, mounting debts, fluctuating markets, and inequality remain as [...]

Premiere Petrol Dollars for a Different Engine, De Balie, Amsterdam, 14 december 2019

By Geert Lovink, December 4, 2019

Petrol Dollars for a Different Engine is an intimate coming of age story about the creative and activistic millennial Eline Hesse and her father John, a retired Shell manager. When she receives a substantial investment portfolio from him with shares in Shell and McDonalds, she sets herself the task to reinvest her shares as sustainably [...]

Silvia Díaz Molina (Madrid) on P2PModels

By Geert Lovink, November 6, 2019

Silvia Díaz Molina is one of the presenters at MoneyLab #7. She is part of the European Research Council starter grant group in Madrid called P2PModels. Silvia Díaz Molina will speak in the AltFin: Experiments from Prototype to Pilot workshop on Friday afternoon. /Geert — P2PModels is a research project born from a ERC and [...]