Friday, April 20 @ 10:00am
Making Money Workshop: WIP with Yvette Granata, “”The Sliming of Data-life: On Cyberfeminist Datum as 3D Illiquidity” followed by discussion of Jason W. Moore’s writings on the Anthropocene/Capitalocene
Organized by: Making Money: Critical Research into Cultures of Exchange Workshop
Location: 329 Hoyt. St

For the first hour of our meeting, Yvette Granata, PhD candidate in Media Study, will present work-in-progress titled “The Sliming of Data-life: On Cyberfeminist Datum as 3D Illiquidity” The project draws upon feminist performance art and explores 3-D scanning of bodies as a form of non-standard capture and as a productive illiquidity. It aims to think towards the making of illiquid social topologies similar to a slime mold’s social intelligence of the space it occupies.

For the second hour we will discuss Jason W. Moore’s writings in preparation for our upcoming symposium MoneyLab 5: MATTER OF CURRENCY on April 27-28. Jason is our keynote speaker on Friday at 5pm at Hallwalls.

For a shorter more concise overview of his theories (30 pgs):
The Rise of Cheap Nature

For a more lengthy overview that really gets into Marx and issues of wage theft that we’ve previously discussed (60 pgs):
The Capitalocene, Part I: on the nature and origins of our ecological crisis
The Capitalocene Part II: accumulation by appropriation and the centrality of unpaid work/ energy