he Visual Logic of the Swirl. Or, How the Shape of an Economy is Recursive

Abstract

This article is part of a greater adventure in exploring and, especially, designing alternative ecologies of funding and other decentralized autonomous organizations (or DAOs). This speculative design work has led to the creation of The Sphere (www.thesphere.as), a regenerative commons for the live arts. Incidentally, when trying to visually represent some of the Sphere’s choreographies of value, the diagrams tend to take the shape of generative vortex, or, as we like to call them, synthetic swirls. In the context of this article, I propose to take this visual logic of the swirl a little further, and, keeping up with its economic incidences, spiral off on a tangent that eventually leads me into the idiotextual surrounds of Bernard Stiegler’s late work (and hopefully back).