skip to main content
Goldsmiths - University of London
  • Staff & students
  • Search
  • Main menu
 
Main menu

Primary

  • Home
  • Course finder
  • Study with us
  • Departments
  • Research
  • Services for Business
  • For the local community
  • Alumni and friends
  • News
  • Events
  • About us
Staff & students

Staff + students

  • Students
  • Library
  • Timetable
  • Learn.gold - VLE
  • Email - Outlook
  • IT support
  • Staff directory
  • Goldmine - staff intranet
  • Graduate School - PGR students
  • Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre
  • Events admin
In this section

Breadcrumb navigation

  • Events
    • Radical New Cross
    • Degree shows
    • Fixing It
    • Black History Month
  • Calendar
Open social sharing
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Whatsapp
Conference

End of the World Trade: On the Speculative Economies of Art and Extraction


21 Jun 2019 - 22 Jun 2019

342, Richard Hoggart Building

Event overview

Cost This is a free event and all are welcome. No registration required. Both rooms are accessible by a lift.
Department Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Visual Cultures, Centre for Research Architecture
Contact m.vishmidt(@gold.ac.uk)

Bringing together researchers, artists, theorists the event will consider how financialisation has mutated new techniques of value extraction and sensory emulation.

The two watchwords of the larger research programme for this event are ‘extraction’ and ‘mimesis’. Extraction inasmuch as the scraping of value from exhausted resources is the current model of endgame capitalism, from the ‘gig economy’ to socially and geophysically devastating mining to the energy demands of the infrastructure servicing the digital economy, with cryptocurrency mining as the nexus where dominant as well as emergent models of social and energy extraction collide and comply. Here, emulation plays an important role, as capital increasingly mimics human biology and social exchange for profit, while the human and the social needs to retrofit itself as forms of capital in order to survive in a landscape of scarcity, commodification and debt. Mimesis is the worldmaking side of emulation, however, recalling aesthetic philosophies which re-imagine the nature-culture divide as not moving from exploitation to immersion, as much ‘new materialist’ thinking does, but to forms of mutual re-invention and adaptability which requires a profound shift in the material and social boundaries that reproduce nature and culture as polarities and as sites of escalating crisis. Art and financial technologies, specifically cryptocurrencies and all digital ledger-based forms of accounting, encapsulate both sides of the extraction/mimesis continuum, particularly with how contemporary cultural and political practices bring up close the agency of financial technologies in expanding the space of incalculability and contingency but also in enclosing the incalculable and sensate in routines of financial accumulation and extraction. Emerging frontiers of social struggle spanning cultural, digital, geological, biological and sensual fields of knowledge and experience will be invoked and materialised through films, artist presentations and talks.

With the participation of Dele Adeyemo, Josephine Berry, Marleen Boschen, Dhanveer Brar, Ami Clarke, João Enxuto & Erica Love, FRAUD, Elizabeth Johnson, Costas Lapavitsas, Jorge Lucero Diaz feat. Ramon Amaro and Amazon Prime Queen (Victoria McKenzie), Le peuple que manque, Rachel O'Reilly, Emily Rosamond, and Mi You.

Organised by Marina Vishmidt (Media, Communications and Cultural Studies) & Louis Moreno (Visual Cultures)

Supported by the CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership, the Digital Worldmaking Stream (Technologies, Worlds, Politics) and the MeCCSA Climate Change Network.

Dates & times

Date Time Add to calendar
21 Jun 2019 3:00pm - 6:00pm
RHB 342
  • apple
  • google
  • outlook
22 Jun 2019 10:00am - 6:00pm
RHB 312
  • apple
  • google
  • outlook

Accessibility

If you are attending an event and need the College to help with any mobility requirements you may have, please contact the event organiser in advance to ensure we can accommodate your needs.

Event controls

  • About us
  • Accessibility statement
  • Contact us
  • Cookie use
  • Find us
  • Copyright and disclaimer
  • Jobs
  • Modern slavery statement
Admin login
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
© Goldsmiths, University of London Back to top