If you missed the MoneyLab GameStop debate on Zoom, here's the video recording. 90 people attended the lively discussion: https://vimeo.com/507592481 <https://vimeo.com/507592481>
> On 1 Feb 2021, at 10:47 am, Geert Lovink <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear nettimers, > > Over the past weeks the swarm of small-time, amateur investors “revenge > buying” stock in GameStop, AMC and other firms has sent shivers down the > spine of Wall Street and led to unprecedented reactions from establishment > experts, regulators and corporations. Is this the insurgency against the > financial overlords we’ve been waiting for since the crisis of 2008? Or is it > just a part of the very financial system that it claims to attack? Both? > Neither? > > Join members of the Moneylab board, nettimers and the other iregulars for a > facilitated discussion of the causes, consequences and potentials of these > historic events. Moneylab is a community of activists, artists and thinkers > who, over 11+ larger events and the last seven years have gathered to dream > dangerously about the radical future of money, finance and economic systems. > > Possible topics include: > How can we contribute to this epic fight against hedge funds and the broader > logics of the financial ‘markets’? > Who are the GameStop insurgents and what do they want? Is it a temporary > aliiance? How about Anonymous? Is the comparison with offline talk-fest > Occupy Wall Street justified and does this relate to existing forms of > finance activism? > Is it also possible to sabotage high frequency trading? How about > collectively shortselling Facebook, Amazon and other tech giants? > Is the ultimate aim to get rid of stocks, the stock market and shareholder > capitalism as such? > Can we please also get rid of the speculative HODL bitcoin mentality? > Anyone is welcome to participate or listen-in. Please pre-register at the > following link and a Zoom link will be emailed to you. A related link list > with relevant materials is in the making and will be circulated soon. Contact > [email protected] for more details. > > The Institute of Network Cultures/MoneyLab is inviting you to a scheduled > Zoom meeting: > > Topic: MoneyLab GameStop Debate > Time: Feb 1, 2021 9 PM (CET), 8 PM (UK), 3 PM (EST), 7 AM (AUS). > > Join Zoom Meeting > https://zoom.us/j/3933331202 <https://zoom.us/j/3933331202> > > Meeting ID: 393 333 1202 > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
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