UNIVERSAL CAPITAL

UNIVERSAL CAPITAL
Author: Sean Smuda
Publisher: Last Word Press
Language: English
Pages: 98
Size: 25.5 x 30.4 cm
Weight: 410 g
Binding: Softcover
ISBN:
Availability: In stock
Price: €20.00
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“Strange and wonderful, Universal Capital brings the mystical and political to heal, increasing the possibilities of NOW. The series goes deep into the bipolarities of “economic rationalism” from the birth of capitalism in the Age of Enlightenment to counter-cultural actions such as the levitation of the Pentagon in 1967, and the Women’s March on Washington. The fundamental freedoms supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution, Descartes, and free enterprise meet those of Hardt, Hoffman, and Powhattan in these brave new cosmologies and performances. History is bent, folded, and turned in on itself; commanded to not miss anything, or not advance!”
– Sam Gould
Beyond Repair Books

“Universal Capital’s prints and performances get at the basic absurdities of the “rational” science of Economics. An aesthetic and historical re-examination of capitalism and cartography, Smuda’s work renews the psyche of industrialized territories towards cosmologies of shared production.”
– Elizabeth Sutton
associate professor, University of Northern Iowa

“What a ride! The layered collage work in Sean Smuda’s Universal Capital is hilarious at times, dense when it enters the absent soul of capitalism, mystical when value-addeds appear only in their locked and loaded paths, amazing when it parades for causes in city streets, stupendous when it reveals financial connections, and heroic when it addresses economic productivity. Art and business stand to learn a lot from each other in Smuda’s work!”
– Tor Dahl
International Performance Improvement Consultant