Although they intervened on a culture of financialization in two very different ways, both Speculation and scrypt explore the intersection of money with the history of media, imperialism, colonialism, and computation. If capitalism is a kind of computer, a difference engine propagating vectors of exchange, these projects attempted to reprogram its operations. Apart from exploring the homology between money, language, computation, and philosophies of abstraction, Speculation and scrypt engage in collaborative practices that interrupt forms of classroom pedagogy based around the concept of the neoliberal individual (and neoliberal university). When money is pursued not for profit, but play, and when money is transformed from a medium of exchange to a medium for artistic practice, these two moneygames make invisible hands visible.
Articles by Stephanie Boluk
\Stephanie Boluk is an assistant professor in the Humanities and Media Studies program at Pratt Institute. Her writing has appeared in books and journals such as Comparative Textual Media (eds N. Katherine Hayles andJessica Pressman), Digital Humanities Quarterly, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, and Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. She is currently co-authoring a book with Patrick LeMieux entitled Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play. For more information see http://stephanieboluk.com.\