Concept: Money

Film from Stavros's presentation.
Title: The American Dream

Concept: Neoliberalism

Film from Devrim Alan's presentation.

Film No. 2: The Queen of Versailles

Director: Lauren Greenfield
More info: Movie site + Wiki

Film No. 1: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Director: Adam Curtis

Episode title: "Love and Power"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz2j3BhL47c

Episode title: "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq0xVuRG4ng

Episode title: "The Monkey In The Machine and the Machine in the Monkey".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXJYkkxh0rk


A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
This is the story of the dream that rose up in the 1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable world. They would bring about a new kind global capitalism free of all risk and without the boom and bust of the past. They would also abolish political power and create a new kind of democracy through the internet where millions of individuals would be connected as nodes in cybernetic systems - without hierarchy.
The film tells the story of two perfect worlds. One is the small group of disciples around the novelist Ayn Rand in the 1950s. They saw themselves as a prototype for a future society where everyone could follow their own selfish desires. The other is the global utopia that digital entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley set out to create in the 1990s. Many of them were also disciples of Ayn Rand. They believed that the new computer networks would allow the creation of a society where everyone could follow their own desires, yet there would not be anarchy. They were joined by Alan Greenspan who had also been a disciple of Ayn Rand. He became convinced that the computers were creating a new kind of stable capitalism - "Like a New Planet", he said.
But the dream of stability in both worlds would be torn apart by the two dynamic human forces - love and power.

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011k45f


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Seminar 27th of February

Place: A2
Time: 10:00–13:00 [approx]

Mapping the seminar

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Micro-assignment: The Scale of Money

Delivery: 27th February

Format: Illustrator 

What: Identify three money amounts relevant to you and your experience. Rather a larger amount than small, i.e. the cost of the Gotthard Tunnel or the Oslo Opera House or the GDP of Spain rather than the price of a new car.

How: Visualize the amounts as circles. Details and scale will be updated here, soon.  

Concepts

Please prepare a presentation of one of the subjects below. It should around 15 minutes and not longer than 20 (since there will be three of you presenting each time.)

 Money: Stavros
The Market: Valentina Reimer
Neoliberalism: Devrim Alan
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Risk: Adrian
Consumption/Speculation: Marina Vila
“The New Economy”: Jordan

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Commodification: Jacqueline Bokor
Financialization: Louis Bergis
Too big to fail: Jorge Pajares de la Pena
Oligopol: Sara Östberg
Quantification (Positivism): Rasmus Westman
Profit-Motive: Greg
Collapse/Bubble: Clive
Commercialism: Döne Delibas
Debt: 
Deregulation
Financial instruments and innovations

First meeting

Wednesday 20th February 10:00 in A4.