We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...

Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre

The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...

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Alexander Kluge ist gestern im Alter von 94 Jahren in München verstorben.

My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off: www.sup.org/books/politi... mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...

Wayne McGregor’s Infinite Bodies at Somerset House, London - the ‘virtual body’ in the OMNI piece certainly arresting.

What if we stopped thinking about the digital as just our devices and started understanding it as a way of mediating reality through discrete units? That's the question driving this book I co-wrote with Alexander R. Galloway, Matthew Handelman, and Leif Weatherby. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792019...

The final Japanese pressing from my recent Shinjuku shop trip - absolute classic from 1965 on Impulse with the pale blue backed cover. Sounds as good as it looks!

And another Japanese pressing of a classic from Disk Union, Shinjuku:

Picked up some sweet vintage Japanese pressings of essential albums. This one from Disk Union in Shinjuku:

Found the Japanese pressing of this great album from 1982 in Nishihara, Shibuya - has dated very well with its post-punk blend of afrobeat and indie-jazz.

Not sure whether a ‘Digital Art Museum’ would really deliver but #teamLab’s Borderless at Azabudai Hills, Tokyo certainly delivers state-of-the-art spectacle. Just as fascinating here to people-watch how visitors interact with the flux of images. We’re a long way from the Lumière Brothers …. or?

The final film in the new Melanie Gilligan series - Home Together (2020-2022) - is now available on the excellent Weird Economies site. My accompanying essay can be found here too: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies

The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …

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This week’s Melanie Gilligan film on Weird Economies is The Bay Area Protests (2016-2022), a compelling exploration of three moments of widespread protest in the Bay Area between 2009 and 2011. More in my accompanying piece: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies

The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …

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I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...

What I Read About AI in 2025

From AGI to Workslop It's time for our annual tradition: a very long list of pieces written about AI this year that have stuck with me, for better or for worse. I've sorted them in alphabetical order...

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Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

My new piece for Weird Economies on the films of Melanie Gilligan - to accompany a curated series of films - a new upload weekly - up to 21 Dec 2025. weirdeconomies.com/contribution...

Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies

The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …

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Hito Steyerl at the MAK Vienna: ‘Humanity Had the Bullet Go in Through One Ear and Out Through the Other’ - featuring Hell Yeah We Fuck Die and Mechanical Kurds.

Sahej Rahal: MYTHMACHINE (2022) at the Kunstraum Vienna.

Femke Herregraven: The Murmur of the Dying (2023) - at the Kunstraum Vienna

Found this gem hidden away in the local used vinyl shop - great bit of Fela from 1977!

Blown away to see the display of Calculating Empires by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler

Paris - Le Monde selon l’AI @jeudepaume - full of good things.

🎬 Call for Papers 🎬 We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more! Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa Please share! #CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky

QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE

We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with…

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I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.

Not sure what my iphone made of the huge #averysinger pieces at the Serralves Foundation today - so many good exhibitions in a stunning setting.

The event page is now available for the AARG event on 20 May on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education. Register here - www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

Accounting and Accountability Research Group@aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · 2y ago

On May 20th, AARG is organizing a round table about the multiple crisis of higher education. This event aims to reposition this specific crisis in relation to other crises, students’ debts, cost of living crisis, University governance crisis, crisis of the welfare state … registration link 👇

Record Store Day - all my @acertainratio.bsky.social vinyl went missing years ago - nice to pick up To Each on RSD. The Fox and Winter Hill 🔥.

Today is the day: Financial nihilism.

Amin Samman@aminsamman.bsky.social · last yr.

I look forward to giving this lecture at the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies @ucl-ccs.bsky.social and conversing with Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social. Come along to find out how economic life today thrives on the ambiguous allure of nothingness, annihilation, and disappearance.

Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social