Alasdair King
@alasdairking.bsky.social
Professor of Screen and Media Arts @qmul.ac.uk
Tracking finance and AI in contemporary film and post-cinematic art.
New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
Tracking finance and AI in contemporary film and post-cinematic art.
New Book: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics)
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Alasdair King
@alasdairking.bsky.social
· Nov 29
ICYMI: The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film (2024)
Chapters on the financial regime and the financial image, financial gaze, financial time, financial space, financial performativity, via Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Petzold, Isaac Julien and other anti-wolves of Wall Street!
Chapters on the financial regime and the financial image, financial gaze, financial time, financial space, financial performativity, via Farocki, Hito Steyerl, Petzold, Isaac Julien and other anti-wolves of Wall Street!
The final film in the new Melanie Gilligan series - Home Together (2020-2022) - is now available on the excellent Weird Economies site. My accompanying essay can be found here too: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies
The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …
weirdeconomies.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The final film in the new Melanie Gilligan series - Home Together (2020-2022) - is now available on the excellent Weird Economies site. My accompanying essay can be found here too: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
This week’s Melanie Gilligan film on Weird Economies is The Bay Area Protests (2016-2022), a compelling exploration of three moments of widespread protest in the Bay Area between 2009 and 2011.
More in my accompanying piece: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
More in my accompanying piece: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies
The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …
weirdeconomies.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This week’s Melanie Gilligan film on Weird Economies is The Bay Area Protests (2016-2022), a compelling exploration of three moments of widespread protest in the Bay Area between 2009 and 2011.
More in my accompanying piece: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
More in my accompanying piece: weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
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I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I’ve summed up and contextualized all of these critical AI pieces & more in one place — “From AGI to Workslop: What I Read About AI in 2025.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-i-read-...
My new piece for Weird Economies on the films of Melanie Gilligan - to accompany a curated series of films - a new upload weekly - up to 21 Dec 2025.
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
Allegories of a Future Collective | Weird Economies
The artist and filmmaker, Melanie Gilligan, may be best known for her trilogy Crisis in the Credit System (2008), Popular Unrest (2010), and The …
weirdeconomies.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My new piece for Weird Economies on the films of Melanie Gilligan - to accompany a curated series of films - a new upload weekly - up to 21 Dec 2025.
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
weirdeconomies.com/contribution...
Hito Steyerl at the MAK Vienna: ‘Humanity Had the Bullet Go in Through One Ear and Out Through the Other’ - featuring Hell Yeah We Fuck Die and Mechanical Kurds.
November 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Hito Steyerl at the MAK Vienna: ‘Humanity Had the Bullet Go in Through One Ear and Out Through the Other’ - featuring Hell Yeah We Fuck Die and Mechanical Kurds.
Sahej Rahal: MYTHMACHINE (2022) at the Kunstraum Vienna.
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Sahej Rahal: MYTHMACHINE (2022) at the Kunstraum Vienna.
Femke Herregraven: The Murmur of the Dying (2023) - at the Kunstraum Vienna
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Femke Herregraven: The Murmur of the Dying (2023) - at the Kunstraum Vienna
Found this gem hidden away in the local used vinyl shop - great bit of Fela from 1977!
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Found this gem hidden away in the local used vinyl shop - great bit of Fela from 1977!
Blown away to see the display of Calculating Empires by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
September 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Blown away to see the display of Calculating Empires by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
Paris - Le Monde selon l’AI @jeudepaume - full of good things.
September 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Paris - Le Monde selon l’AI @jeudepaume - full of good things.
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🎬 Call for Papers 🎬
We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more!
Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa
Please share!
#CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky
We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more!
Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa
Please share!
#CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky
June 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🎬 Call for Papers 🎬
We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more!
Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa
Please share!
#CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky
We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more!
Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa
Please share!
#CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky
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June 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.
Call for Papers
We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with…
moneyontheleft.org
May 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.
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I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.
May 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I’m organizing an international workshop next week at Roskilde University: Speculating the Future: Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities. We’ll explore how speculative fiction helps us understand speculative finance & future-making. The keynote will be delivered by Sherryl Vint from UC Riverside.
Not sure what my iphone made of the huge #averysinger pieces at the Serralves Foundation today - so many good exhibitions in a stunning setting.
April 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Not sure what my iphone made of the huge #averysinger pieces at the Serralves Foundation today - so many good exhibitions in a stunning setting.
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The event page is now available for the AARG event on 20 May on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education. Register here - www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
April 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The event page is now available for the AARG event on 20 May on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education. Register here - www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...
Record Store Day - all my @acertainratio.bsky.social vinyl went missing years ago - nice to pick up To Each on RSD. The Fox and Winter Hill 🔥.
April 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Record Store Day - all my @acertainratio.bsky.social vinyl went missing years ago - nice to pick up To Each on RSD. The Fox and Winter Hill 🔥.
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Today is the day: Financial nihilism.
I look forward to giving this lecture at the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies @ucl-ccs.bsky.social and conversing with Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social. Come along to find out how economic life today thrives on the ambiguous allure of nothingness, annihilation, and disappearance.
Financial Nihilism Today
The Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present a talk on financial nihilism by Amin Samman (City) with commentary from William Davies (Goldsmiths).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Today is the day: Financial nihilism.
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Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
Finance Aesthetics Book Launch
Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
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We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....
Raymond Williams Society Postgrad Essay Prize 2025
We are delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay competition for its 11th year. The deadline for entries is Friday 28th February 2025. The prize for the wi…
raymondwilliams.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....
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Excited to be part of this super collection of articles on Cinema and Financial Speculation that has just appeared in French with Images Secondes. Some excellent pieces to catch up on over the holiday break: imagessecondes.fr/index.php/04...
04 | 2024 Cinéma et spéculation financière – Images secondes
imagessecondes.fr
December 19, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Excited to be part of this super collection of articles on Cinema and Financial Speculation that has just appeared in French with Images Secondes. Some excellent pieces to catch up on over the holiday break: imagessecondes.fr/index.php/04...
Wfh day. Currently spinning:
January 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Wfh day. Currently spinning:
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Today is, believe it or not, the official publication date of “Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary.” The perfect Christmas gift 🎁
December 24, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Today is, believe it or not, the official publication date of “Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary.” The perfect Christmas gift 🎁