#tsmoney

[ethel-baraona]

"There are many ways to kill. 

One can stab a knife in your guts; take away your bread; deprive you of the cure for your illness; put you in a miserable housing; torture you to death with work; take you to war; etc.

Only a few of these are prohibited in our country."

Bertolt Brecht, always timely, but even more today.

[ethel-baraona]

“After reading Guarnieri description of DEB/T project, it’s important to realize that, in reality, crisis is a form of govern and that is inherent consequence of Capitalism modus operandi. The representation of capitalism is that one of paper money, no matter on which currency one thinks, or in which bank you’ll find it. Our values are defined by this currency: the value of our knowledge, of our time, of our work. Certainly we still think that we cannot live without money, but by imagining new possibilities we are able to start questioning the conditions imposed as immutable starting points.”

From our reflections apropos DEB/T, a project by  Lodovica Guarnieri

The complete post: Quaderns

[ethel-baraona]

Have several mixed feelings by the inherent contradictions from this crowdfunding project. At first sight it seems like a great, creative idea, but with a simple double thought, you realise how easy is to 'find a creative solution' for our problems, without thinking in deep if the problem doesn't rely on our need of keep doing the same again and again... I mean collecting the same old money that will go to the same old banks, and not to the citizens in Greece; because, where does the final goal of this campaign will go if it succeed? To Tsirpas pocket? Don't think so.

As a symbolic project is super strong indeed, but perhaps we need to use 'the power of the crowd' to ask responsibilities to the EU, to remind them about the real fact that we are already 'crowdfunding' our social health by paying our taxes —taxes that are being used to rescue banks and enrich the rich—. The problem at the end is not the money, is the failed system of considering 'democratic' those decisions taken by just a few, and even worse, when those few are economic institution (FMI, CEB, etc.)

Perhaps we need the 'power of the crowd not to collect the same old money that has taken us to this stupid discourse of austerity, but to think how to use the collective power to provoke structural changes in the political field. Difficult though, but which change hasn't been difficult along history?

—The complete conversation can be followed on FB. Come and share your thoughts.

[ethel-baraona]

"Mientras dure la Máscara todos somos griegos mientras los presupuestos alimenten ejércitos todos somos griegos mientras dividan la Ciudad todos somos griegos el Che, Régis Debray, Cohn-Bendit, Rudi Dutschke griegos los estudiantes sublevados de Río y Buenos Aires de Santiago y de Córdoba y Milán de París y de Zurich y de Berlín Oeste y todos los que creemos en la revolución y el hombre griegos.

Hasta que nazca el tiempo de la única cosecha y griego negro argentino chino francés árabe sean palabras que se usaban en la Edad Media que acabó a finales del siglo veinte amén."

*Paráfrasis de 'Todos somos judíos alemanes,' por Julio Cortázar, sustituyendo 'judíos alemanes' por 'griegos' es evidente ver como la historia se repite, desde 1968 hasta 2015 [again and again] y como nos seguimos dejando manipular por el sistema. 

Texto original tomado de Último Round, Tomo I, 'Noticas del Mes de Mayo'.

[ethel-baraona]

Project for Silesia University. Plymouth MArch Katowice Project - Ko-oprekariat - Analysis, Urban Strategy, Masterplan.

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Money is Material by Mark Wagner

"The collage artist makes us question the worth of taking something at face value. More on theavantgardediaries.com

Directed & Produced by Kelly Nyks & Jared P. Scott / Cinematography & Editing by Mike McSweeney / Music Composition by Malcolm Francis / Artwork by Mark Wagner / Process Video by Mark Wagner / Animation by Noah Poole & Nic Stark / Colorist: Josh Kanuck / Production Assistance by Greg Hartofelis / Additional Camera by Theron Powell!

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"It's the economy, stupid!" IAAC Winter Lecture Series Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

"the economy, stupid." —James Carville, 1992.

The lecture is an exploration on the possibilities of relational post-capitalist cities and the [lack of] money., based on the research of new ways of production, open source platforms, DIY and new technologies to implement small-scale designs that can be catalyst for larger-scale impact, accompanied by innovative economic models that has emerged in the past years, such as local production, crowdfunding, micropayments and social money; and how they have affected and transformed the role of the architect. 

In this context, we understand the crisis of the capitalist system is simply the result of a crisis of values? that has led people to seek other solutions where architects are trying to create another kind of architectures, going from the philosophy of DIY [Do it yourself] to the DIWO [Do it with others]. However, these forms of influence in the urban environment also open the door to large uncertainties and it’s important to make a critical review of immaterial labour in the architectural practice. Interestingly, the question that emerges is about how to transform this dizzying abundance of bottom-up projects based on sharing economies into a new community based model to provoke real structural changes in the system we live in.

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Architektur immaterieller Arbeit

Andreas Rumpfhuber

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