Gloerich, InteLovink, Geertde Vries, Patrick2023-02-172023-02-172018978-94-92302-19-9https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/moneylab-reader-2-overcoming-the-hype/https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20452MoneyLab is a network of artists, activists, and geeks experimenting with forms of financial democratization. Entering the 10th year of the global financial crisis, it still remains a difficult yet crucial task to distinguish old wine from its fancy new bottles. 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.<ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=9'>Inte Gloerich, Geert Lovink, and Patricia de Vries: <i>Overcoming the Blockchain and Cybercurrency Hype: Introduction to MoneyLab Reader 2</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>UPDATING DIGITAL ECONOMY</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=16'>Patricia Reed: <i>Optimist Realism: Finance and the Politicization of Anticipation</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=25'>Nina Power: <i>Necro-Capitalism and Counter-Images</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=33'>Nathaniel Tkacz and Pablo R. Velasco: <i>Experience Money</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>BLOCKCHAIN CRITICISM</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=45'>Robert Herian: <i>Blockchain and the Distributed Reproduction of Capitalist Class Power</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=54'>Jaya Klara Brekke: <i>Postcards from the World of Decentralized Money: A Story in Three Parts</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=66'>Max Dovey: <i>Love on the Block</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>PERFORMING FUTURE FINANCE</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=76'>Martin Zeilinger : <i>Contemporary Art Between Algomysticism and Fintech Activism</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=89'>Laura Lotti : <i>Financialization as a Medium: Speculative Notes on Post-Blockchain Art</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=103'>Emily Rosamond: <i>It Sees (Notes Toward a Cultural History of Financial Vision)</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=117'>David Hollanders: <i>The Reception of the Financial Crisis in Hollywood Movies</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=123'>Max Haiven: <i>The Crypt of Art, the Decryption of Money, the Encrypted Common and the Problem with Cryptocurrencies</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>CRITIQUES OF THE GRAND SCHEMES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=140'>Rachel O’Dwyer: <i>Things that Transact: How the Internet of Things is Transforming Payments</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=148'>Brett Scott: <i>Cash in the Era of the Digital Payments Panopticon</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=161'>Tripta Chandola: <i>The Demons of Demonetization: Devaluing ‘Trust’ as a Currency In Informal Economies, An Ethnographic Account</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=174'>Silvio Lorusso: <i>First as Arts, Then as Tragedy — Two Cents on Personal Crowdfunding and Creative Entrepreneurialism</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=187'>Nathalie Maréchal: <i>The Data Paradox: How the War on Poverty Became a War on the Poor</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>ALTERNATIVES IN FINANCIAL IMAGINATION</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=199'>Trebor Scholz: <i>How to Coop the Digital Economy</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=217'>Dmytri Kleiner: <i>Universal Basic Income is a Neoliberal Plot to Make you Poorer</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=223'>Patrice Riemens: <i>Precarity is the Present, Universal Basic Income the Future</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=234'>Economic Space Agency: <i>On Intensive Self-Issuance: Economic Space Agency and the Space Platform</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=245'>General Intellect: <i>Commonfare or the Welfare of the Commonwealth</i></a></li> </ul> <h4>APPENDICES</h4> <ul> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=254'>Eduard de Jong, Geert Lovink, and Patrice Riemens: <i>10 Bitcoin Myths</i></a></li> <li><a href ='https://mediarep.org/bitstream/handle/doc/20452/INC-Reader_11_Gloerich_ea_2018_Moneylab_.pdf#page=259'>Platform Coops <i>engCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 GenericMoneyFinanceEconomyInternet30010.25969/mediarep/19277