The State of Debt – The Ethics of Guilt : UniNomade 2.0
Interview with CHRISTIAN MARAZZI by IDA DOMINIJANNI
Mission impossible: saving the Euro, the landslide of de-Europeanization and the geopolitical cataclysm that can come from it. But the crisis can’t be resolved through austerity, only recession and depression are produced. An interview with Christian Marazzi on penitence after the neoliberal binge and the antidote of the common.
Economist, professor at universities in Switzerland, Padua, New York and Geneva and a highly regarded activist and intellectual of radical leftist movements, Christian Marazzi is one of the most lucid analysts of the current economic-financial crisis. Among the first to diagnose its historic character and global impact in 2009 when the crisis exploded in the U.S., he predicted the Eurozone’s inevitable involvement. Astute analyst of financialization as postfordist biocapitalism’s modus operandi, he doesn’t believe in the possibility of overcoming the crisis or containing its contradictions through economically rigorous policies. We begin with the rescuing the Euro to think about what is down the road ahead.
Art Prize 2011 / Total Amount of Money Rendered in Exchange for a Masters of Fine Arts Degree to the School of Art Institute of Chicago, Pulped into Four Sheets of Paper by Thomas Gokey
(by PhotoLab507)
“I acquired the exact amount of cash ($49,983) that my tuition cost in shredded form from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. I then pulped this into four large sheets of paper. The artwork is the act of selling this paper piecemeal for the amount of money it is made out of … The project is about debt, something everyone can relate to. I am interested in the relationship of value to material, especially given the fact that I just spent so much money for a piece of paper (my diploma). This project is also about the coming university bubble.”
