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Burning Man’s Experimental Dreampolitics

Does the iconic festival suggest a new way forward?

February 6, 2018 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

When the era of master narratives recedes and well-trodden Enlightenment principles cease to be relevant, progressives should issue the challenge to come up with an alternative thinking. It is quite a challenge today to bring about new reasoning when the distinguishing feature of our current condition is distrust and skepticism ...

A Utopia for Money

A visit to the secretive art warehouse at the Singapore airport

April 27, 2017 • by Max Haiven

I have visited money’s utopia: it is not only a utopia for those with money, but a utopia for money itself. Sequestered in the winding roads of an industrial park, next to the airport tarmac of one of Asia’s busiest airports, a mere block away from the garrison of the border ...

‘Imagining the Future: Financial Capitalism and the Social Imagination’

March 15, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici

Social production of financial futures Fictional expectations in financial markets Economics and science fiction Risk, debt, and futurities Theorizing rationality/irrationality in financial crises Fictitious capital Future presents and present futures Utopian/dystopian sociologies of finance Political economy of sociological imagination(s) Real-estate utopias/dystopias Microcredit and neoliberal imagination Feminist finance and economics ...