This symposium explores the entanglements of critical finance, speculation, and collapse as temporal and ontological
conditions of the present. Finance operates not only as an economic system but as a medium of subjectivity and an engine of
futurity, producing new forms of value, risk, and governance. Yet financial speculation also embodies dynamics where collapse
is not an exception but a mode of operation: a constitutive feature rather than a catastrophic aberration.
Through two thematic panels and a keynote, the symposium brings together scholars working across media theory, anthropology,
philosophy, and critical art practice to critically investigate how financial systems fabricate futures while simultaneously
accelerating their dissolution. The symposium reframes collapse not as an event but as an internal condition of finance
- an integral immanence within the financial mediation of time, and a fundamental component of contemporary political imaginaries
and technocapitalist exits.
Schedule
- 14:30 – 16:00 Living & Dying under Financial Capitalism: panel with Giulia Dal Maso, Gerald Nestler, Naoki Matsuyama
- 16:15 – 17:45 Exits &Speculative Capital: panel with Wassim Alsindi, Erik Bordeleau, Mikkel Rørbo
- 18:00 – 19:00 Currency of Nihilism: keynote by Amin Samman
The
event is hosted by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures and organised by Naoki Matsuyama and Mikkel Rørbo.
