Weird Economies (W.E), is a journal, programming space and social experimental site that traces economic imaginaries extraordinary to financial arrangements of our time. W.E takes on an expanded chrono-political strategy, wherein past (vindication), present (location), and future (fabrication) are commensurable grounds for the extrapolation of weird—and weirder—economies.

Upcoming or current events

Unknown Category
illustration

Lift & Drag: Exocapitalism Reading Group

What happens when financial abstractions achieve escape velocity from terrestrial constraints? When markets begin to orbit beyond the gravitational pull of human economies? Join us for a two-session exploration of Exocapitalism (Becoming Press, 2025), where we'll trace the aerodynamics of capital as it encounters the twin forces of lift – the speculative ascent that carries financial flows beyond earthbound reference points – and drag – not so much resistance to lift but rather the symptoms of a system where humans perform increasingly hollow versions of classical economic relations.
Read more

Recent contributions

Latest entries in the financial lexicon

Few best case scenarios for the future