Real Life is taking a week off. In the meantime we’ve brought together a few of our recent articles on what we are calling “meme finance.” These articles address how social media dynamics have combined with speculative markets to raise the _...Read More_

"How can expertise from time-based media art conservation help appraisers vet NFTs?"

"The persistent recurrence of speculative excess is a defining feature of financial capitalism wherever and whenever investors have the opportunity to trade assets. For the last 500 years, from tulip bulbs in the 1630s to cryptocurrencies _...Read More_

>"Market booms and busts might be irrational, but we can understand why they happen – and what to do to mitigate the damage"

>"How does metamodernism, an academic study of art and culture, relate to the recent developments in politics seen in Scandinavia and elsewhere, with movements like the Alternative? Indeed, how can we say anything meaningful about the _...Read More_

>"NFTs are making some collectors and artists rich, but success in this high-risk marketplace is more art than science."

"A new book examines the revolution underway in how we pay for things—but the genre of pop economics doesn’t leave much room for considered thought."

"Each era of modernity has reinvented Marx to fit its needs. How can his analysis of capitalism help us today?"

When stay-at-home orders went into effect in the spring of 2020, confined to my Oakland neighborhood while caring for an infant and teaching remotely, I started an ethnographic project close to home:

Thining out side is good but online only Bcs. Of covid