Spectral is a activist-art project masquerading as a non-profit research-creation enterprise. The project makes use of ideas and practices developed as part of a theoretical work-in-progress, Probing Economics, and an ongoing series of dramatic workshops, The Gift and the Ledger, by Muindi Fanuel Muindi.

Browse our manifesto-in-progress, Trading By Ear, to learn more about the ideas behind Spectral.

References:

• Pierre Klossowski, The Living Currency

• Joseph Beuys, What is Money: A Discussion

• Jacques Derrida, Given Time: I. Counterfeit Money

• Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control”

• Jacques Rancière, Disagreement

• David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

• Xin Wei Sha, Poesis and Enchantment in Topological Matter

• Garrett Laroy Johnson, “ITITIT: What is Speculative Engineering?”