Archive - Altered States of Monetary Consciousness

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 •

Intro to Economic Life 4: The Pandora's Box of Money

The Great Transformation of human economies into market economies

Mar 22 •

Money as Addiction

Escaping solutionist perspectives on our means of survival

Mar 15 •

The Deposit Myth

How a linguistic glitch confuses the hell out of economists and the public alike

Mar 8 •

Intro to Economic Life 3: Everyday Communism, Reciprocity, and Hierarchy

What David Graeber can teach us about distribution

Mar 7 •

February 2024

Intro to Economic Life 2: Human Natures

Moving beyond Homo Economicus

Feb 29 •

Intro to Economic Life 1: Creatures on a Planet

Interdependence, and the foundations of value

Feb 22 •

Intro to Economic Life 101

Why I'm building an 10-part course to life under corporate capitalism

Feb 19 •

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