Notes Towards a Critique of Money (2011). A book tour to present the book and discuss the function of money in the current juncture of financial collapse and intensified social antagonism. Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Baudrillardian structuralism, the book creates a universe where price and sign are entangled, giving rise to the dominant organizing form of capitalism. The fantasmatic management of desire enforces this structural principle on the subjective level and encourages the libidinal investment in the dominant representations of social reality as they are produced by the combined principles of signification and economic valuation. Here, money signifies the particular content that hegemonizes the universal ideological construction of capitalism providing a particular and accessible meaning to economic value, which colors the very universality of the system of prices and accounts for its efficiency. Planned presentations; Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, 7.10.2011/ janvaneyck.nl; Undo-Redo Design Studio, Paris 12.10.2011/ undo-rdo.com; Make it New 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial, 5.11.2011/ bienalle2011.gr ; XYZ Outlet @ Monodrome 3rd Athens Biennial, 8.11.2011/ xyzprojects.org; NO IDEA - Vacant, Tokyo, 9.12.2011/ n0idea.vom
Money and Social Ontology, PhD Project at the Erasmus Institute For Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University in Rotterdam. “Money is a philosophical question and I intend to reflect on the assumptions about the emergence, the operation, the instantiations and the immaterialization of money in the context of the ICT revolution, as well as on the importance of trust and the relation of value to authority. … This thesis investigates and presents the preconditions that, situated in intentional states, in social relations, in technological contingencies and in the ontological structure of social reality and of value, ascribe to money its meaning and its functions. At the same time I try to suggest the implication of these preconditions for the two main scientific research programs in monetary analysis, namely for the state and commodity theories of money. In the remainder of this section I will try to portray the analytical tools that I will use in my philosophical analysis of money, elaborating a little bit on the purposes that each of the tools is expected to serve in my endeavor.”
The Drachma Project. The project reflects on how identity, community and value is represented in the Greek currency, and how these social coordinates play out in a network of economic cohesion. Our aim is to trace the process of national identity building from the viewpoint provided through the representations in the currency. These representations yield an opportunity to reflect on the Greek construction of classical antiquity as well as the celebrated allegiance to direct democracy. Furthermore, we would like to consider how issues like history, territoriality and nationality are negotiated and how these elements are related with economy and value. The Drachma Project was inaugurated at the Acropolis Museum in Athens on the 31.10.2010 at the MarathonMarathon project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Nadja Argyropoulou. Further events include a international workshop in the station of the Athens School of Fine Art in Hydra between the 31.3.2011 and 4.4 2011, a symposium at the Historical Archive of the National Bank of Greece on the 5.4.2011, a workshop at the Athens School of Fine Arts 25.5.2011 and 27.5.2011. Further events include a show case in Athens between the 7.11.2011 and the 13.11.2011, a special issue of the re-public.gr http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=4148#more-4148 and a publication.
Greece (was?) in the Euroland. A research project in collaboration with Professor Panos Tsakaloyannis that investigates the process of the (dis)integration of the Greek Economy in the European monetary union and the causes of its failure. The research will investigate the principles that underlie the constitution of the common European currency, the institutional framework of its establishment, and the overall european and international framework for its development. The particularity of the Greek case will be illuminated with an emphasis to the post-war period of the modernization of the Greek state, the expansion of the Greek economy and the maturation of the Greek society. The collapse of the Greek state and the evaluation of the currents situation and of the prospects of the Greek society will be analyzed on the basis of all these internal and external elements. The results of the research will be communicated in a book that will be published in english, in the spring of 2012.
Notes Towards A Critique of Money, with an afterword by Yannis Stavrakakis, Maastricht: Jan Van Eyck Academy, 2011. ISBN: 978-90-72076-64-9.
http://www.janvaneyck.nl/0_4_3_publications_info/papadopoulos.html
Eternal Tour Festival: “The History Of The Sheqel”, Publication for the Festival's Jerusalem Edition in December 2010 by Labor et Fides Editions (Geneva) and Black Jack Editions (Paris). http://www.eternaltour.org/
“Bodies that resist; imag(in)ery identification and affirmative biopolitics”, in the Swedish Dance History 2010 edition.
“Θύματα της Επιτυχίας τους... : Ο Ρόλος του λάθους της αποτυχίας στην εξέλιξη των επιστημών.” Κοντέινερ από την Εφημερίδα Ελευθεροτυπία 03.05.2010. “Victims Of Their Success: The Contribution of Failure and Mistake in the Growth of Scientific Knowledge”. Eleftherotipia 03.05.2010.
“Between Rules And Power: Money As An Institution Sanctioned By Political Authority”, Journal of Economic Issues, 42 (4) (December 2009), pp. 951 – 969.
“Everyday Love”, text for the catalogue of the solo exhibition Homemade Storie by Anna Lekka in the gallery Astrolabos, Athens 23.09.09 – 24.10.09.
“Psychoanalysing Money (I): Consistency and Desire”, Project description, concept, activities. Various entries for the 20008 issue of Jan Van Eyck Yearbook, Jan Van Eyck Publications, 2009.
“La crisis financiera: de la depresión al goce” (translation by Carlos Gómez Camarena), Erinias 11 (Autom 2009), pp. 178 – 187.
“Financial Crisis: from Depression to Jouissance”, in Heaven Catalogue of the 2nd Athens Biennial ‘Heaven’, Athens 13.06.09 – 4.10.09 (english/ greek).
“Electronic money and the possibility of a cashless society”, published electronically in the Social Sciences Research Network
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=982781
“Culture Against Art” text for the Exhibition Pictura, Dordrecht, 22.03.08 – 14.05.08.
“The evolution of the institution of money; the different trajectories and the role of technology”. Published in the proceedings of the conference annual EAEPE 2006 (CD – Rom).
“Trust in the Monetary System”. Published in the proceedings of the Annual EAEPE conference 2005 (CD – Rom).
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Drachma; Speculation on Symbolic Value” (in Greek), lecture at the Historical Archive of the National Bank of Greece. Athens, 5.04.11.
Notes Towards A Critique of Money, presentation of the book (in progress) at the opening week of the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 15.01.11. www.janvaneyck.nl
“Drachma; Speculation on Symbolic Value”, lecture at the Acropolis Museum, as part of the Marathon Marathon Project, curated by Hans Urlich Orbist and Nadja Antonopoulou. Athens 31.10.10.
“Money and Collective Intentionality”, paper presentation at the 7th Bi-Annual Conference on Collective Intentionality organized by the University of Basel. Basel, 26.08.10 – 28.08.10 http://cipp.unibas.ch/activities/collective-intentionality-vii/
“Street Politics as Democratic Politics”, a series of lectures in the workshop Dance and Choreography Are Fine, ledby Mårten Spångberg, during the Impulstanz festival in Vienna, 26.07.10 – 29.10.10. http://www.impulstanz.com/
“Money in the New Technological Paradigm”, paper presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy. Amsterdam 6.11.09 – 8.11.09. www.eaepe.org
“Consistency and Desire: Money as the Master Signifier of the Market Economy” presentation at the APCS 2009 Annual Conference, . New Brunswick, 9.10.09 – 10.10.09. www.apcsweb.org
“Psychoanalyzing Money”, Project Presentation. The Tourist Syndrom: Artists' Forum part of the Transient Spaces Project, Palanga, 3.08.09 – 11.08.09. www.transientspaces.org
“Financial Crisis: From Depression to Jouissance”. Lecture at the Performance Arts Forum, St. Ermes, 27.08.09. www.pa-f.net
“Combining Economic Ontology with psychoanalysis; the case for an affective and a linguistic naturalization of collective intentionality”, Presentation at the VII INEM Conference, Xalapa, 02.07.09 – 04.07.09. www.econmethodology.org
“Financial Crisis: From Depression to Jouissance”. Lecture at the Red Analitica Lacaniana, Colegio des Altos Estudios. Mexico City, 30.06.09.
Kunst-Tour Maastricht: “Community, Place, Art; The micropolitics of Culture in Maastricht” ; Performative Lecture and discussion on the Occasion of the Kunst-tour at the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 24.05.09. http://www.kunsttour.com/
“Baudrillard; the Forgotten Member of the Lacanian Left?” Presentation in the Workshop Reading Baudrillard, Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 10.03.09. www.janvaneyck.nl
“Financial Crisis: From the Discursive to the Affective”. Presentation in the Colloquium of the Institue for Cultural Inquiry. Berlin, 3.02.09. www.ici-berli.org
“Enjoying 'Creative Destruction'; people, markets and money in crisis”. Presentation for the opening week 2009 of the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 16.01.09. www.janvaneyck.nl
“Psychoanalyzing Money; the constitution of the subject in the market” Presentation for the symposium (organized by Georgios Papadopoulos) On Economics and Psychoanalysis at the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 08.10.08. www.janvaneyck.nl
“Money, Consistency and Desire”, Presentation for the Conference Power: Form and Dynamics. Tampere, 22.09.08 – 24.09.08. http://www.uta.fi/Power2008/
“Money and Collective Intentionality”, Presentation for the Annual Conference of the International Network for Economic Methodology. Madrid, 12.09.08 – 13.09.08. www.econmethodology.org
“Money, Consistency and Desire”, Presentation for the Conference Ideology and Discourse Analysis. Roskilde, 08.09.08 – 10.09.08. http://www.essex.ac.uk/idaworld/
“Money, Consistency and Desire”, Presentation for the Conference Lacan at Work, , Copenhagen, 04.09.08 – 06.09.08. http://www.cbs.dk/forskning/institutter_centre/institutter/lpf/hoejreboks/ nyheder/ call_for_papers_lacan_at_work
“Filigrammes: Commentaires de L'Argent”, Presentation at Le Plateau http://www.fracidf-leplateau.com/en/index.htmlon the Occasion of the Exhibition, L' Argent, Paris 28.06.08.
“Other than Commodity”, Presentation at the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 07.05.08. www.janvaneyck.nl
“On Money and Psychoanalysis”. Presentation for the Opening Week 2008 of the Jan Van Eyck Academy. Maastricht, 12.01.08. www.janvaneyck.nl
“Trajectories of Money”, Presentation for the Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy: Developing Economies; Multiple Trajectories, Multiple Developments. Istanbul, 02.11.06 – 4.11.06. http://eaepe.org/
“Trust in the Monetary System”, Presentation for the Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy: A Pluralistic Forum. Bremen, 10.11.05 – 12.11.05.http://eaepe.org/
“The Omnipresence of Money, the Omnipresence of Globalization”, Presentation for the Conference: Globalisation and Representation, Brighton, 12.03.05 – 13 .03.05.
“Conceptualizing Money; its meaning, its institutional character and its place in a ‘Walrasian equilibrium’”, Presentation for the Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy: Economics, History and development, http://eaepe.org/, Rethymno, 28.10.04 – 31.10.04.
“The Element of Choice in the Construction of Economic Models, Values and the Ceteris Paribus Clause”, Presentation for the Annual Conference of the International Network for Economic Method. Amsterdam,19.08.04 -21.08.04. www.econmethodology.org
“What to do with self-destructive desire”, choreography by Elizabeth Ward. Performance at the Judson Church, curated by Movement Research, http://www.movementresearch.org, New York, 21.06.10.
“A wariors' cry howlers across the sky”, choreography by Maarten Spanberg. Performance at the Atalante, Goteborg 13 & 14.02.10
“Money, Need, Desire, Utopia”, performative Lecture with Elizabeth Ward at the Jan Van Eyck Academy, www.janvaneyck.nl. Maastricht, 07.10.09.
“Money, Need, Desire, Utopia”, performative Lecture with Elizabeth Ward at the Athens Biennial, http://www.athensbiennial.org/AB/en/heaven/EN_HVconcept.htm. Athens, 25.09.09.
Jan Van Eyck Academy, www.janvaneyck.nl. Researcher Theory with the project: “Psychoanalysing Money; The (dis)placement of desire in the capitalist symbolic order”. Maastricht, 01.01.08 – 31.12.09.
Institute for Cultural Inquiry, www.ici-berlin.org. Inagural Project: “Spannung /Tension”. Berlin, 01.10.07 – 17.12.07.
Erasmus University Rotterdam. MPhil in Economics and Philosophy. Erasmus Institute of Philosophy and Economics, www.eur.nl/fw/english/eipe. Rotterdam, 01.09.02 – 01.07.03.
Athens University of Economics and Business, www.aueb.gr. Junior Research Assistant affiliated to professor dr. Panos Tsakaloyiannis. Research area: EU Monetary Integration. Athens, 01.10.99 – 31.12.09.
London School of Economics. MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method, www.lse.ac.uk. Dissertation (awarded with distinction): “The element of choice in the construction of economic models, values and the ceteris paribus clause” 01.10.98 – 15.09.99.
Athens University of Economics and Bussines, www.aueb.gr. Department of International and European Economic Relations. B.Sc. in Economics. Dissertation: "The Economic and Political Position of Iran after the Gulf War" 01.10.93 – 31.06.98.
Association for Psychoanalysis Culture & Society. www.apcsweb.org/
Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique. http://clic.janvaneyck.nl/
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. http://eaepe.org/
Economic Chamber of Greece. www.oe-e.gr/oee_eng.htm
International Network for Economic Methodology. www.econmethodology.org/
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