Indebted to Intervene

Description

As governments and individuals struggle with growing indebtedness, the topic of debt itself – what it is, what it means, and how we understand it – has never been more salient. This collection brings together a range of contributions from many disciplines and around the world to consider debt through various lenses, including design, art, technology, political economy, social justice, surveillance, protest, education, urban and virtual spaces, and more. Aiming not just to advance scholarship, but to push ahead real change in the world, the book offers not only analytical insights and conceptual apparatuses, but practical tools and radical inspirations as well. A powerful analysis of a concept that has become ever more central to everyday society, InDEBTed to Intervene will be essential reading for scholars and citizens alike.

Intro - Oliver Vodeb, Nikola Janović Kolenc

Debt as a Mode of Governance - Nikola Janović Kolenc

Indebted Interaction: The Wages of the Digital Economy - Mark Andrejevic

From the Fetish Character of Commodity to the Fetish of Interest-Bearing Capital - Sašo Furlan

Cyber-Debt, Barter, and Gift Economies - George Petelin

Overcoming the Fear of Exercising Our True Desires - Nenad Jelesijević

Debt in the American Economy: Busted Bubbles and Booming Inequality - Daniel Marcus

Debt and Public Communication: Towards an Interspatial Counterpractice - Oliver Vodeb

Type Illustrations – Ben Mangan

DEBT Friendly Competition 2012

In Search of Extradisciplinary Dialogue and Intervention: Debt and Brisbane - Oliver Vodeb

IN MEMORIAM: Zravko Papič Shoaib Nabi Ahmad

Sujets

• Digital Media
• Personal Finance
• Budgeting
• ECONOMICS
• Economie gestion
• General officer
• Politics
• Activism
• Business
• LAW
• General
• Cultural Studies
• Finance
• Internet

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 10 janvier 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783206414
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 50 Mo

Extrait

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Oliver Vodeb: To my daughter Mina who
shows me everyday the power
of love- it is more powerful than
any debt.
Nikola Janović Kolenc: Tis book is dedicated to my
newborn son Lev, and my wife
and best friend Irena, with
much love and thanks.6
10 Intro
TXT Oliver Vodeb, Nikola Janović Kolenc
TXTS
14 Debt as a Mode of Governance
TXT Nikola Janović Kolenc
26 Indebted Interaction: Te Wages of the Digital Economy
TXT Mark Andrejevic
40 From the Fetish Character of Commodity
to the Fetish of Interest-Bearing Capital
TXT Sašo Furlan
57 Cyber-Debt, Barter, and Gift Economies
TXT George Petelin
65 Overcoming the Fear of Exercising Our True Desires
TXT Nenad Jelesijević
80 Debt in the American Economy:
Busted Bubbles and Booming Inequality
TXT Daniel Marcus
86 Debt and Public Communication:
Towards an Interspatial Counterpractice
TXT Oliver Vodeb
Type Illustrations – Ben Mangan
PAGES: 20, 34—35, 52—53, 60, 77, 82, 106—107
114 DEBT Friendly Competition 2012
CURATED BY Oliver Vodeb
VISUAL
120 Party’s Over, Starts Over
AUTHOR Lydia Dambassina COMMUNICA-COUNTRY Greece
122 On the Other Side of the MirrorTION
AUTHOR Katarzyna PagowskaCOUNTRY Poland PRACTICE
124 First World Problems + Consumed
AUTHOR Ashlea GleesonCOUNTRY Australia7
128 Change Your Mind. Change Our World.
AUTHOR Darcy ManganCOUNTRY Australia
130 Te New World Order
AUTHOR Mariyah ArifCOUNTRY United Arab Emirates
132 Debt Machine
AUTHOR Belinda LiCOUNTRY Australia
134 Rich Uncle Pennybags's Game of Debt
AUTHOR Andrew CoxCOUNTRY Australia
136 00.05.00: Debt Doom
AUTHOR Aaron CroftCOUNTRY Australia
138 Savers' Credit Card: Te Card that Pays You
AUTHOR Charles MayfieldCOUNTRY Australia
140 ATM Sale
AUTHOR Lucy-Ann MooreCOUNTRY Australia
142 Wonderland Series
AUTHORS Vladimír Turner, Sergi PalauCOUNTRY Czech Republic
146 Tunnel Vision: Campbell Newman’s Tunnel vision:
A Cost-Beneft Analysis.
AUTHORS: Luke Robertson, Gem Copeland, Aaron GillettCOUNTRY Australia
148 Loquitur Muros
AUTHOR Bleeps and Dimitris PetalasCOUNTRY Greece
150 Te Tird Deadly SinVISUAL
AUTHORS Majida AlSafadi, Sarah Zohair, Omnia ElAfifiCOUNTRY United Arab
EmiratesCOMMUNICA152 Value Quest Bourse:
An Electronic Allegory of Casino CapitalismTION
AUTHORS Eduard Balaz, Ivan Blagojevic/Urtica Art GroupCOUNTRY SerbiaPRACTICE8
CRITICAL
156 Surplus Debt
AUTHOR Søren RosenbakCOUNTRY Denmark WRITING
164 Debt, How to Get out of it
AUTHOR Antonio RolloCOUNTRY Italy
172 What Is Your Occupation?:
Meditations on and Mediating the Corporeal Self
and Corporate Society
AUTHOR Johnny MerrymanCOUNTRY USA
174 Escape from the Tyranny of Tings
AUTHOR Aaris SherinCOUNTRY USA
175 Instincts on debt
AUTHOR Brendan RossCOUNTRY Australia
178 Reconsum
AUTHOR Lukas Lehmann BEYOND...
COUNTRY Germany
180 Let's Play T ag: Culture jamming Harvey Norman
AUTHORS Paul Kimbell, Nicola ParisCOUNTRY Australia
182 Call Centre Experience! Contact Centre Emulator
AUTHOR Ivan Kozenitzky
COUNTRY Argentina
184 Speculative Numismatics
AUTHOR Anja GrotenCOUNTRY Germany9
186 Safety First
AUTHORS Vladimír Turner, Ondřej MladýCRITICAL COUNTRY Czech Republic
188 Plakatopolis
AUTHORS Kaja Kisilak, Janez Plešnar, Goran IvašićWRITINGCOUNTRY Slovenia
190 Finitude
AUTHOR Keith ArmstrongCOUNTRY Australia
194 In Search of Extradisciplinary
Dialogue and Intervention: Debt and Brisbane
TXT Oliver Vodeb
218 IN MEMORIAM: Zravko Papič
Shoaib Nabi Ahmad
BEYOND...10
You cannot evict an idea
whose time has come!
Tese words express the nature
of the global movement against the rule
of money over life. Tey belong to the
people, the 99 percent, who are
bringing fundamental, urgent issues to the
street, into the media and the realm of
public consciousness, into schools,
universities, jobs, homes, and into intimate
discussions and relationships.
Tese words also express
something else. Tey articulate a state of mind,
a focus, and a concise articulation of the
problem. Te idea whose time has come
is mainly about three things: inciting
interventions that create a rupture in the
order of things with the goal to redefne
our felds of experience and the relation -
ship between being, doing, and saying;
encouraging dialogue; and creating new,
emancipatory social institutions.
INTRO11
If communication and art are to
play a relevant role in shaping a future
worth having, we need to further
redirect, reinvent, and reimagine our own
understanding and the way we think,
theorise, and practice them both. Te
burden of debt not only ofers an op -
portunity to do so, but also an urgent
responsibility.
You cannot evict an idea During the global protests against in the cycle of debt—the capitalist age
whose time has come! the austerity measures and fnancialisa - of economical, fnancial, and political
tion, one thing became clear. Debt is no emergency, which could last forever. It
threat to the capitalist economy. In fact, could turn into a constant way of life;
it lies at the very core of the neoliberal life under debt. Surely we do not want
project. to become the “capitalist entrepreneurs”
Te imperative fnancial logic is of our lives, or self-governed “human
simple: to generate more debt. While capital”.
punishing indebted people and states Yes, we are witnessing the
unfor unpaid debts, fnancial capital simul - certainty of the current times, which
taneously ofers them new loans that generates mass anti-capitalistic
crithey will not be able to repay in future. tique through interventions in the
Drawing these nations deeper into the public sphere. But public critique is not
cycle of debt, (mostly) Western democ- enough. Our struggle should use all that
racies and fnancial institutions have public reason and power ofer to sup -
loaded debt onto future generations. port the many aspects of the current
Today, public debt is an obliga- common anti-capitalist efort. Our aim
tion handed down from the present should be one: to abolish capitalism
generation to future ones. Millions are with all reasonable means.
enslaved through debt, and indebted Taking a step back and looking at
life has become naturalised. Debt has the global movements from a distance,
become the primary mechanism that it is clear that we need to learn more.
takes power from the people and gives it We need to create strategies for
underto the hands of the 1 percent. But debt is standing and ways of learning that go
rarely questioned. Its moral obligation is beyond the institutional, cultural, and
culturally embedded. It is shaming and pragmatic boundaries of professions
therefore unspeakable. Its power lies in and felds of knowledge. Tis process is
its violent normalcy. already happening with great intensity
What is to be done? Clearly, after around the world, and we at Memefest
years of the welfare state, we are now have been contributing to it for many 12
years. From our perspective, a better as virtual space. Tis is followed by an
understanding of communication and international selection of works from
art for social and environmental change, the 2012 festival process: visual
comtogether with developed relevant prac- munication, critical writing and
partices, is crucial. ticipatory radical art. Works include
InDEBTed to Interven is a be ook of written contextual articulations by
parcritical lessons in debt, communication ticipants and commentaries by some
design, art, and theoretical practice. It of Memefest’s curators. Tis
extradisciis inspired by the intensive process we plinary contextual, public, and dialogic
have undertook during the Memefest approach to analyse and evaluate
com2012 Festival of Socially Responsive munication design and art is unique to
Communication and Art, themed ‘Debt’. Memefest. It shifts the focus beyond
It shows some of the results of this pro- the image and towards communication.
cess but also presents additional work Finally, an essay about the
extradisciplion the theme. nary seminar/workshop/intervention
Te book starts with texts written held in Brisbane at the Queensland
Colon the subject for this publication by lege of Art in November 2012 follows.
scholars, educators, and activists from Tis collection of response-able
Slovenia, Australia, and the US. Debt essays, theoretical discussions, art, and
is discussed through the lens of public communication design works presents
communication, art, design, technol- fndings about debt through the lens of
ogy, political economy, social struggle, communication and art for social and
surveillance, protest, education, en- environmental change; in this sense, it
forced subjectivities, and urban as well is the frst of its kind. It ofers analyti -
cal insights, conceptual apparatuses,
practical tools, and radical inspiration.
Debt defnes our lives and lies at the
core of human relations; this book is an
intervention that aims to contribute to
the process of real change. Te time for
change is now.
Oliver Vodeb,
Nikola Janović Kolenc,
Brisbane and Ljubljana,
December 201313
TXTS14
DEBT AS A
MODE OF TXT Nikola Janovic Kolenc
GOVERNANCE
ontemporary social relations, as we know them, are changing. Te
category of capital is still essential for social relations, but today even Cmore essential is the production of debt and the indebted man. In
other words, the creditor–debtor relationship, which operates as a specifc
mechanism of biopolitical control, exploitation, and domination over
individuals and society as a whole, is a fundamental one.
Te production of the (post)modern subject, as defned by biopoli -
tics (Foucault (1978/79) 2008; Negri 2000; Virno 2004; Esposito 2008),
has had at least two purposes: First, to provide conditions for the
reproduction of homo economicus, and second, to meet the needs of capitalist
economy and human fexible morals, for the purposes of creating a (post)
modern consumer self. But with economic and p