Finance and Society (Jan 2023)

Freeze to defrost! Negating the asset form

  • Geraldine Juárez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.8101
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
pp. 84 – 88

Abstract

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Assets thrive on liquidity but they also enact a freezing of their own, a freezing of the underlying. How can we undo the cold reign of the asset economy? By turning state practices of asset freezing into the basis for a pirate tactic of de-assetization. De-assetization means freezing over the pipes that keep capital circulating; it also means applying heat to the notion that everything in the world can and should be frozen in order to release more liquid flows of cash.