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New Narratives 2: Thinking Economics Differently negotiates—in open seminars and workshops, lectures, discussions, performances, and films—sociopolitical fields of conflict. One such issue is the question of alternatives to a primarily economically shaped concept of growth, and how this might be realized through criteria of a social and cultural nature oriented to the common good.

In her keynote speech Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak questions, among other things, the equating of “development” and “state economic growth.” She identifies the accompanying opacity of a political and economic “culture” that, for example, enshrouds the effects of environmental destruction, war, and displacement and that is essentially responsible for inequality and social upheaval.

So as to provide a focus of program content, we invited the political scientists Athena Athanasiou & Elena Tzelepis, the artist and curator Boris Ondreička, the artist Katya Sander, and the author and curator Simon Sheikh, to each conceptualize a one-day topic and to then discuss it with international guests as well as local civil initiatives.

Pursuing the topic of What If We Don’t Make It? —The Economy of Doom, Boris Ondreička brainstorms, together with his guests, utopias and doomsday scenarios in order to speculate about ideas of family, community, and economics in relationship to laws and normative orders.

In Performing ‘Crisis’ as Critique: Acts and Arts of Remapping the Present beyond Economization, Athena Athanasiou & Elena Tzelepis view, with their guests, the limitations of the dominant expressions of the imaginary as engendered in Europe and globally through neoliberal forms of government, while at the same time forms of art/action as democratic participation emerge, opening up new possibilities for thinking and creating publicness.

In Narratives and counter-narratives of predictive modeling, Katya Sander & Simon Sheikh explore, with their guests, how given data is analyzed to predict future behaviours—in short: politics.

The additional open seminars and workshops, filmic and performative contributions, as well as the fourth edition of the Forum Civil Society Initiatives, which since New Narratives 1 has been established at the Kunstgebäude, along with all involved parties—including local and international participants—will address problems related to the counterreading of the seemingly firmly implemented discourses on governance.

All involved individuals are demanding other ways of anchoring in public consciousness new narratives on alternative forms of economics, life, and politics, and ways of applying these narratives both politically and systemically. Thinking economics differently also means thinking growth differently.—If not now, then when?

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n short, feminist economics centres feminized practices and values like care, health and reproduction. It works towards a future economy and political social system based on these values. Feminist economics is not just aimed at people who identify as women: it is for all people who are suffering in the current economic system (whether they are poor or rich). This class is informed by Cassie’s work over the past decade counseling and organizing people with financial trauma, massive indebtedness, and economic hardship towards their personal and collective liberation.

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Since the Santa Fe-based art collective Meow Wolf opened its permanent installation, the House of Eternal Return, in March 2016, the project has been an unmitigated success in terms of viewership and profits. Housed in a 20,000-square-foot former bowling alley, the sprawling interactive artwork welcomed 400,000 visitors in its first year—nearly four times as many as expected—and brought in $6 million in revenue for the collective’s more than 100 members.

(via This 140-Person Art Collective Is Pursuing an Alternative Model for Artists to Make a Living)

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Speaking of our culture rapidly being infiltrated (I mean supported) by corporations who step in to help sustain us because Governments don’t like art, I was recently introduced to the important work of Desiree Tahiri and her self-published zine: Who’s money hangs the art? Buy it. It’s seriously the best ten bucks you’ll spend this year:The zine explores the influences money has on exhibitions; how corporations gain far more than their sponsored gallery through their purchase of prestige, authenticity, and an elite market of art-viewers, and investigates in detail the corporate sponsors of two major NSW art galleries: the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). Who is putting up these galleries’ works? This zine contributes to the growing critique of capitalist corruption within public institutions.https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/522728046/whos-money-hangs-the-art-zine?ref=shop_home_active_1

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Having been accused, and found guilty, of rigging and manipulating virtually every possible asset class, perhaps it was inevitable that Deutsche Bank, currently on trial in Milan for helping Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA conceal losses (as first reported last October in "Deutsche Bank Charged By Italy For Market Manipulation, Creating False Accounts") is now facing accusations that it was running an international criminal organization at the time.

Deutsche Bank Accused Of Running An "International Criminal Organization" | Zero Hedge

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(Rebecca Conroy) MSE Module 2 presentation feat. Ian Millis in conversation and a Tea Towel exhibition. 

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(via Nervous Systems | On Algorithmic Welfare: Silicon Valley as the Good Cop of Neoliberalism - YouTube)

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According to the most recent ATO Tax Transparency Report, 679 companies with more than $100 million in income paid no tax in Australia in 2014-15. The list includes such household names as Walt Disney, Sydney Airport, Qantas, Origin Energy and News Australia. These companies can collectively be considered to be amongst the biggest operating in Australia – both in terms of income, and the prominent position they enjoy in the public eye. Some of them are not Australian owned, and they may pay tax in other jurisdictions. However, they all operate in Australia, generate revenue from the spending of Australians and utilise existing infrastructure – like roads and ports – that were paid for by Australians. So there’s something deeply unfair about a system which allows them to not pay any tax in Australia.

FactCheck: do 679 of Australia's biggest corporations pay 'not one cent' of tax?

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(via #5 - Speculating on our own futures - Max Haiven - YouTube)

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London is one of the world’s most powerful financial centres, hosting financial institutions that steer money across the globe, impacting all industries, governments and individuals. London also hosts some of the world’s most dynamic social, environmental and economic justice campaigners. There’s an opportunity here. By coming to grips with the financial sector, campaigners have an unparalleled potential for global impact. For many people though, access to the financial sector remains limited, and its workings appear obscure and alienating. LSFA would like to help change that, providing a forum for a diverse array of activists, artists and alternative economists to grapple with the financial sector in their midst. There are two focal points. Firstly, there are going to be workshops. Secondly, LSFA aims to create a hackspace for economic justice projects, a space to apply hacker philosophy, economic anthropology, gonzo exploration, DIY culture, and a bit of mischievousness to financial structures.

(via About « The London School of Financial Arts)

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Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?

(via What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? | Aeon Essays)

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After a year of being force-fed irrelevancies, say the students, they formed the Post-Crash Economics Society, with a sympathetic lecturer giving them evening classes on the events and perspectives they weren’t being taught. They lobbied teachers for new modules, and when that didn’t work, they mobilised hundreds of undergraduates to express their disappointment in the influential National Student Survey. The economics department ended up with the lowest score of any at the university: the professors had been told by their pupils that they could do better.

The protests spread to other economics faculties – in Glasgow, Istanbul, Kolkata. Working at speed, students around the world published a joint letter to their professors calling for nothing less than a reformation of their discipline.

(via The Econocracy review – how three students caused a global crisis in economics | Books | The Guardian)

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The Fair Pay for Artists campaign calls on the federal government to allocate $5m annually to establish an artists fees fund. This would enable cash-strapped public galleries to be able to pay artists’ fees at least to the level recommended in the industry code of practice. Over the past few years, momentum has been building in many other countries for the payment of fees to artists for their labour, over and above the costs of production of their artworks. In Sweden, for example, the payment of artists’ fees is enshrined in the MU agreement, which includes a deal between national visual art organisations and the Swedish state. Similar agreements exist in Norway, Finland, Canada and Poland.

(via We don't pay visual artists properly – that needs to change | Tamara Winikoff | Art and design | The Guardian)

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The present global economy is driven by non-linear economic models based on multiple technologies and energies that have a considerable number of dysfunctionalities and contradictions. We live in a world shaped by an original Marxist economic model that developed itself into a socialist centralised model, which coexists now with a (paradoxically) neo-liberal technology hyper-capitalist model. The current system is complex, fragmented, and deeply bipolar, something which affects most of the governments in practice.

(via Circular Economy and Blockchain Disruption Challenges)