Ralph Heidenreich, Stefan Heidenreich: Mehr Geld (2008) [German]

Geld zu vermehren ist zum allgemeinen Gesetz des Handelns geworden. Das betrifft genuin das Feld der Ökonomie, aber kaum weniger das des Politischen.

Das Monetäre nimmt dabei vielerlei Form an. Selten ist es noch Münze, meistens dagegen Zahl, Rechenoperation in Kapitalströmen und verkaufter, vielfach beliehener Kredit. Güter, Rohstoffe und Daten werden ebenso umgewertet wie die Begriffe von Arbeit und Eigentum.

Die ökonomischen Verhältnisse sind mit denen der Politik eng verschränkt. Orte der Macht und Punkte von Entscheidungen liegen auf den Wegen der globalen Geldströme. Die Lage der Gegenwart ist von Asymmetrien der Macht gekennzeichnet, nicht zuletzt im Verhältnis von ökonomischem und militärischem Einfluss. Souverän ist, wer Geld macht. Die Untersuchung geht vom Begriff und der Geschichte des Geldes aus, um den Zustand von Ökonomie und Politik am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts zu betrachten.

Publisher Merve, Berlin, 2008
Volume 283 of Internationaler Merve Diskurs
ISBN 3883962171, 9783883962177
152 pages

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The Occupied Wall Street Journal, Nos. 1-2 (2011) [English/Spanish]

“Occupy Wall Street is the beginning of a whole new kind of democracy: a bottom-up people’s democracy led by the 99%. It is a bold vision for the future that is beginning to inspire the nation. However, to pull it off, we’re going to need a robust people’s media unbeholden to corporate money. If we want people’s democracy then we’ve got to build a people’s media — the two are inseparable.

We want to be the people’s media. Our first project is The Occupy Wall Street Journal, a four-page broadsheet newspaper with an ambitious print run of 50,000. It’s aimed at the general public. The idea is to explain what the protest is about and profile different people who have joined and why they joined. We will explain the issues involved and how the general assembly process operates at Liberty Plaza. It will also offer resources and ways to join. The emphasis will be on quality content, design, photography and artwork that uses incisive humor to make it a lively read.

Future projects include longer editions of the newspaper, bold stickers, edgy posters, colorful palm cards and inspiring flyers.

This project is a volunteer effort: every penny you donate will go directly to printing and distribution.

Occupy Wall Street Media is not the “official” media of the occupation — there is no official media! This is one attempt by a group of journalists who support the occupation to offer a way for the general public to hear the stories, perspectives and ideas from inside the movement. We think the more voices, ideas and media the better.” (from project’s Kickstarter page)

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commentary on Issue 2 (Daryl Lang, BreakingCopy.com)
commentary on Issue 1 (Daryl Lang, BreakingCopy.com)

Issue 1, published in early October 2011, 4 pages
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Issue 2, published on 8 October 2011, 4 pages
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Social Text journal dossier: Going Into Debt (2011)

This dossier on debt draws from conversations among the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture about the cultural meanings of debt in relation to the histories of migration, nation-building and state violence, to discourses around nature and intellectual exchange, as well as to the narrative structures that construct and reframe the meanings of debt in daily life.

Contributors: Sigma Colón, Michael Denning, Amina El-Annan, Andrew Hannon, Eli Jelly-Schapiro, Hong Liang, Monica Muñoz Martinez, and Van Truong, with responses by David Graeber and Richard Dienst.

Published by Social Text Collective, New York, in September 2011

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