Archive - Altered States of Monetary Consciousness

Socializing Homo Economicus

We have a spectrum of spirits. Why do economists fixate on only one?

Jul 12 •

The Emptiness Machine

How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out of the Enlightenment

Jul 2 •

June 2024

Intro to Economic Life 10: The Re-Growths

Redefining progress beyond utopias, and five paradigms of change

Jun 19 •

The Outsider's Guide to Payments Censorship

Digital payments can be used to turn people off. But when do you care?

Jun 13 •

May 2024

The Three-Faced Interface

The evolution of corporate personhood in the age of AI

May 26 •

Intro to Economic Life 9: Ouroboros Capitalism

Self-harm and contradiction in our economic superorganism

May 16 •

The Cost of Cash...lessness

How to free your mind from fintech propaganda

May 2 •

April 2024

Intro to Economic Life 8: Economic Numbness

Why our system is an elephant we can't see, or feel

Apr 18 •

Intro to Economic Life 7: Coming of Age in Corporate Capitalism

The phenomenology of life in market society

Apr 10 •

A Lego Model of Financial Capitalism

Unboxing the dark arts of finance

Apr 4 •

Intro to Economic Life 6: The Market Worldview

Commodification, alienation and the myth of independence

Apr 3 •

March 2024

Intro to Economic Life 5: The Rise of Fluid Interdependence

The market vortex, and its 'forces'

Mar 27 •

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