Finance Aesthetics

A unique, critical, and creative encyclopedia from scholars, artists, and writers on the world and words of finance capital.

What does finance capital look like? How do the push and pull of debt and credit shape our feelings and relations? Across fifty-five unforgettable entries, Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary offers an unorthodox appraisal of our bizarre, distorted contemporary condition."Many of the entries in Finance Aesthetics offer generative appreciations of terms, processes, and concepts that cut against the grain of more standard approaches."
—Andreas Petrossiants, e-fluxTorsten Andreasen's work currently focuses on the periodization of the correlation between culture and financial capital since 1980.

Emma Sofie Brogaard is assistant and research associate in the research project behind Finance Fiction: Financialization and Culture in the Early 21st Century, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Mikkel Krause Frantzen is Associate Professor in Environmental Aesthetics, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Nicholas A. Huber is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages, Hampton University.

Frederik Tygstrup is Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen.