there are two recent works of writing that are quite interesting, and worth reviewing.. for our project i think....
one is on how money in the current Neo-Liberal digital just-in-time society works... How it has come to be not just the oil that turns the wheels of finance, but in fact the true object that is sought, exclusively, across all scales. This means that investments, developments, etc. at any given time are intensively vulnerable to the pattern to cash out at any given time. In a world where only money matters and where legal and policy structures allow for capital flight (in ways that were specifically NOT permitted in the past, during the Fordist era) such a situation adds enormously to the general precariousness of the social landscape at any given time. Traditionally, developments take time and there used to be restrictions on capital flight (prior to the era of Globalization) so as to insure, to some measure, that big money would stay in the game, and hence developments could take hold. Now this is not quite the situation at any given time in the west and in the east.
Notes Towards A Critique of Money by Georgios Papadopoulos and Yannis Stavrakakis
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the other book that looks quite interesting to me, is Debt: the First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
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