Investee Activism Workshop
2013-2015
Alongside a public lecture series on “The Age
of Appreciation: Lectures on the Neoliberal Condition” by Visiting Professor Michel
Feher, the Centre for Research Architecture also ran a workshop series aimed at
delineating the domain of “investee activism” as specific mode of social
antagonism defined by financial markets. These included stakeholder activism in
the stock market, borrower activism in the bond market, and collateral
guarantor activism in the derivatives market. In addion to surveying existing
cases of social movements predicated on the investor vs. investee nexus,
especially in the wake of the real estate and banking crises of 2008,
participating students also presented their own projects and related-insights
in order to speculate on the potential development of such activism. These lectures
and workshop materials eventually combined in a new Zone publication by Michel
Feher.
Michel Feher’s Rated Agency here
Michel Feher’s Rated Agency here