Le Merle, vol. 5, no. 1, Winter 2018: Art & Finance: Unworking Value I

By turns Nigredo-black and battlefield, transductive and future-promising, a turnstile of lived and real abstractions—the question of value can be dizzying, but sometimes it also opens onto new virtualities. Somewhere between art and finance, at the crux of governance by debt and the new vantages afforded by blockchain technologies, this issue raises questions about what accrues in claims and debts, and focuses on what, resisting measurement, uses itself up without keeping count. The key question: how do we stay with the financial trouble?