As governments and individuals struggle with growing indebtedness, the topic of debt itself – what it is, what it means, and how we understand it – has never been more salient. This collection brings together a range of contributions from many disciplines and around the world to consider debt through various lenses, including design, art, technology, political economy, social justice, surveillance, protest, education, urban and virtual spaces, and more. Aiming not just to advance scholarship, but to push ahead real change in the world, the book offers not only analytical insights and conceptual apparatuses, but practical tools and radical inspirations as well. A powerful analysis of a concept that has become ever more central to everyday society, In DEBTed to Intervene will be essential reading for scholars and citizens alike.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Intro – Oliver Vodeb, Nikola Janović Kolenc
Debt as a Mode of Governance – Nikola Janović Kolenc
Indebted Interaction: The Wages of the Digital Economy – Mark Andrejevic
From the Fetish Character of Commodity to the Fetish of Interest-Bearing Capital – Sašo Furlan
Cyber-Debt, Barter, and Gift Economies – George Petelin
Overcoming the Fear of Exercising Our True Desires – Nenad Jelesijević
Debt in the American Economy: Busted Bubbles and Booming Inequality – Daniel Marcus
Debt and Public Communication: Towards an Interspatial Counterpractice – Oliver Vodeb
Type Illustrations – Ben Mangan
DEBT Friendly Competition 2012
In Search of Extradisciplinary Dialogue and Intervention: Debt and Brisbane – Oliver Vodeb
IN MEMORIAM: Zravko Papič Shoaib Nabi Ahmad
Über den Autor
Oliver Vodeb is senior lecturer at the School of Design at RMIT where he teaches in the master’s programme of communication design. He is the principal curator of Memefest and Lipstik+ Bread. His latest books are Food Democracy (Intellect Books, 2017) and Radical Intimacies (Intellect Books, 2023).Contact: RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
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