[Marxism] April 2009 on âempyre-

[Nicholas Ruiz III <editor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

April 2009 on âempyre-

âCreativity and Postmodern Finance, or the Artifice of the
21st Century Global Financial Implosionâ

Plan on escaping the travails of finance and capital? Sure you do. We are all 
creative in our orientation toward the artifice of capital. The decision to 
survive requires employment of the arts of finance and capitalization, 
regardless of one's subjectivity or preoccupation.
    'Creativity,' from the Latin, 'crescere,' means 'I come to be,'
'I increase,' 'I grow and expand,' etc. To be sure, some are endowed in one way 
or another with more or less of something, creativity notwithstanding. And for 
certain, some are more creative than others. Out of all this, what âcomes to 
beâ as humanity employs the arts of capital in the 21st century? What does 
our creation obtain?
    As of late, the human world is preoccupied with artisans of
capital and finance, and with good reason. Humanity is fearful that its future, 
we might say, is being foreclosed upon by the uncontrollable forces of their 
trade. Many cultural theorists feel that capital is an artifice. Capital is but 
our creation, they say. So perhaps we need only recreate capital, and its 
terms, to adjust for its errors, to render an ever better society. Others say 
capital
is the problem in itself. What have we caused to be, to be increased, or 
expanded upon, that has led us to this spirited place? 
    How does our art, our artifice, from the Latin âarmusââart being that 
which comes from our arm or shoulderâcontribute to the problems or solutions 
of the global meltdown? Who are the artisans? And who is the audience that 
goads them onward?

Our guests:

Michael Angelo Tata is the author of Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality 
(forthcoming in 2009).

Laurence Rickels is professor of German and comparative literature at the 
University of California, Santa Barbara. His books
include The Devil Notebooks (2008), Nazi Psychoanalysis (2002) and The Vampire 
Lectures (1999).

Joseph Tabbi is professor of contemporary literature and technology at the 
University of Illinois at Chicago. He
is the author of Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology 
and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk (1995). He also edits the 
Electronic Book Review.

Jeff Pierce is an independent equity trader based in Canada. He is also the 
editor of Zentrader.ca

Davin Heckman is Assistant Professor of English at Siena Heights University in 
Adrian, Michigan.  He is the author of A Small World: Smart Houses and the 
Dream of the Perfect Day (2008).

Nicholas Ruiz III is a moderator of âempyre-. He is the
author of America in Absentia (2008) and The Metaphysics of Capital (2006). He 
is also the editor of Kritikos.

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Many thanks,

Nicholas


Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org
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