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Brief: Banks are increasingly replaceable. "Embedded finance" makes it easy to deliver financial services in context. Over time, that may result in money gravitating towards influencer-run financial institutions. This could have significant ramifications for how society manages its surplus.

Mario Gabriele • The Disappearing Bank

what they say about contemporary culture, what they can actually do for audiences, and what they can offer contemporary social relations.

Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)

Although these emerging tropes—the metaphor of life as work of art, and the model of artists as ideal workers—suggest a Romantic, antimodernist refusal of the domination of market forces, paradoxically they contribute to the expansion of a culture of work without end.

Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life

Ainsi, la réduction des espaces d’existence réellement autonomes s’opère non seulement par la marchandisation d’un nombre croissant d’activités, mais également par la soumission de notre propre personne aux finalités marchandes, par « l’entreprise de soi », le dernier avatar de l’idéologie du travail. De sorte que « la mise au travail et la mise en

Françoise GOLLAIN • André Gorz et l'écosocialisme (French Edition)

My central contention is that late capitalism not only accelerates the flow of capital, but also accelerates the rate at which subjects assume identities. Identity formation is inextricably linked to the urge to consume, and therefore the acceleration of capitalism necessitates an increase in the rate at which individuals assume and shed identities... See more

Jonah Peretti • Negations: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Mark Fisher was possibly the last of a disappearing breed: the music critic as prophet.

þÿMark Fisher,Darren Ambrose • þÿK-punk

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Ada Lovelace

Adam Smith

Andy Warhol

Bertrand Russell

Brad DeLong

Buckminster Fuller

Calestous Juma

Clayton Christensen

Dambisa Moyo

David Deutsch

David Friedman

David Ricardo

Deirdre McCloskey

Doug Engelbart

Elting Morison

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Frederic Bastiat

Frederick Jackson Turner

Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Marc Andreessen • The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money

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