(ongoing research project)

Geofinance: Financialities of the Anthropocene analyses a cause and effect relationship between financial systems and Earth-systems. The ‘geofinancial’ relation is elaborated on in the video essay Political Economy of Geofinance, which encompasses an analysis of a systemic conversion of environmental catastrophes and the use of financial products. This analysis is followed by a proposition: If derivative finance influences and instigates environmental catastrophes, then environmental emancipation needs to occur along similar speculative financial lines. Implied Volatile Earth is a financial mathematical model which brings together volatility mathematics and the spatial reconfiguration of territories through a model of the Earth covered with volatility surfaces. These graphs allow for price speculations on the future conditions of the territories that they cover, a zoomed-in section of the model underneath the whole view of the Earth together with the financial data next to it, propose the desired price to attain environmental emancipatory conditions of these territories.

MA dissertation

(ongoing research project)

Excerpt out of text “Anti-social Design”:

This ‘anti-social design’ might be a useful tool to obstruct and repurpose the exploitation of the commons. A design approach where neoliberal technologies such as freedom in trading, speculation on value and privatisation might be adequately understood and used against the interests of those who devised such technologies in the first place. Design resistance needs to take a different direction where the axioms of the market are repurposed and stripped from their socio-political nature – a deterritorialization of finance technology. Such a techno-social appropriation could be realizable through infiltration, hybrid collaboration and re-engineering. The skeptical reader is already thinking: how is such an appropriation possible? Well, the argumentation of this assertion lies first and foremost on the following question; how to depoliticize neoliberal technology?



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