[-empyre-] local currencies

[Nicholas Ruiz III]

sd...it all depends upon how you read/perceive a market...and exchange...my view is quasi-empirical: in such a view, 'breathing' is a capitalist action, wherein a being, call it 'A' --capitalizes upon the extant oxygen in a given gas containing milieu, further utilizing that oxygen to drive cellular processes that enable energy production in the form of cellular ATP. The Romantics will call such activity, as it drives a certain familiar mammal around the planet, human 'life'. There is even a built-in regulator of ecological balance, in the sense that one person can only breathe so much at a time...on the other hand, other activities of anthro-capital utilization (e.g. financial speculation, local currency creation,etc.) are checked by more anthropic laws...

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




----- Original Message ----
From: "sdv at krokodile.co.uk" <sdv at krokodile.co.uk>
To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:25:39 PM
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] local currencies

Nick

Given that earlier you claimed that 'we are all capitalists' and in the 
same note proceeded to mention the 'market' in terms which effectively 
continue the fetishization of the concept which we've been living with 
throughout the last three decades, to then revert back to a currency 
localized in geographic terms seems a little inconsistent...

Still there have always been methods of exchange which are external to 
capitalist markets, for markets existed before capital and will exist 
long after capital has been superceded.

steve



Nicholas Ruiz III wrote:
> these people may really be on to something with this practice...why wouldn't or shouldn't every locale have their own currency?
>
> NRIII
>
>  Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
> Editor, Kritikos
> http://intertheory.org
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: davin heckman <davinheckman at gmail.com>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 2:35:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Eddies, Whirlwinds, Trade Winds
>
> I just read an article in the Detroit News on their new local currency:
> http://www.detnews.com/article/20090323/BIZ/903230389/Detroit+cash+keeps+hometown+humming
>
> It's not "extra-marketable"...  but I do like that it tries to keep money local.
>
> Davin
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>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:58 PM, { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com> wrote:
>  
>> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, G.H. Hovagimyan wrote:
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>>    
>>>> ghh...what might an 'extra-marketable' utopia look like...?
>>>>        
>>> ... In New York there are hundreds of artists collectives that
>>> are now functioning outside of the market. They share loft spaces,
>>> produce work online and offline and function despite the
>>> market...
>>>      
>> you'd know better than me G.H. (I haven't set foot in NYC
>> since the 70-80's), so I'm genuinely interested to know
>> about all these many suddenly successful artists' co-ops...
>> care to name a few? (or is this wistful posturing...)
>>
>>
>> /:b
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