# POLEMOS BOOK SERIES (2006-2012) We started the Polemos series (at Tutkijaliitto publishing house) to create a new language and sense to our experience of biopolitical economy to which the existing concepts and approaches did not seem to talk anymore. The concepts and openings introduced in the series looked at first perhaps exceptional or even extravagant. Yet concepts such as *immaterial labor, multitude, mental ecology, precariat, basic income, semiocapitalism, feminization of work, attention economy, copoiesis, cognitariat, arbitrary powe*r were mapping the already changed social and political territory on which we are standing. The series tried to find words for things which existed, but which were still lacking them. It tried to build a new language and sense to our experience. *Polemos* (Gr. war, battle) is a means of creation. It is a creator of ideas and cooperation, their father and king, as Herakleitos said, others it makes Gods and others men, others it makes slaves, others free. The titles in the series include, among others: Christian Marazzi: Pääoma ja kieli [Capitale & linguaggio] 2006 Akseli Virtanen: Biopoliittisen talouden kritiikki [Critique of Biopolitical Economy] 2006 Maurizio Lazzarato: Kapitalismin vallankumoukset [Les revolutions du capitalisme] 2006 Jakonen-Peltokoski-Virtanen (eds.): Uuden työn sanakirja [Dictionary of New Work] 2006 Paolo Virno: Väen kielioppi [Grammatica della moltitudine] 2006 Franco Berardi: Tietotyö ja prekaari mielentila [Infolabour and precarious states of mind] 2006 Jean Baudrillard: Terrorismin henki [L’esprit du terrorisme] 2007 General Intellect: Vasemmisto etsii työtä [Left without work] 2008 Anna Kontula: Punainen eksodus [Red Exodus] 2008 Jussi Vähämäki: Itsen alistus [Submission of Self] 2009 Félix Guattari: Kolme ekologiaa [Les trois écologies] 2008 Bracha Ettinger: Yhdessätuotanto [Copoiesis] 2009 Félix Guattari: Kaaosmoosi [Chaosmose] 2010 Pekka Piironen: Epävarmuuden talous [Economy of Insecurity] 2012 ![](https://i.imgur.com/lCe7054.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/OK0aKrG.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/WxBhJ16.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/jPg9lBE.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/5JkpmSz.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/cOrUIEk.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/cbODk4K.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/SmOFUmw.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/XBPfrY4.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/sZDEdG3.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/s1XytdV.png) ![](https://i.imgur.com/BeEGL1S.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/u6qmIt3.png)![](https://i.imgur.com/sjtweV4.png)
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AKSELI VIRTANEN

Co-Founder, Economic Space Agency, San FranciscoDSc(Econ.), Associate Professor (Docent), Aalto University, HelsinkiFamily with three boys@econaut6akseli@ecsa.ioakseli.eth

5/5/2024
CRYPTOECONOMIC SYSTEMS, SYNTHETIC FINANCE, NETWORK DERIVATIVES

Cryptoeconomy is not just another tech sector. It is a different way of doing the economy. The economic space we need to discuss in relation to the cryptoeconomy is nothing short of imaging and engineering an alternative, post-capitalist mode of organizing and calculating that sits in parallel with the conventionally-conceived economy. That’s a big claim. It announces new economic possibilities that, while not entirely novel in their vision, are wildly new in the conception of their reach and mode of organization. The rise of joint stock company and stock markets in 1840s transformed capitalism. A whole new mode of production, capture and distribution of value was born. I think we are now at a turning point of similar significance. The new network technologies will produce a radically different economy. How value is created, captured and distributed, what is money, how people relate to production, are changing as radically as the first generation internet changed the way we communicate and relate to the presence of others in our social communication. Here is some of our recent thinking:

4/12/2024
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Akseli Virtanen

8/15/2023
BIOPOLITICAL ECONOMY AND ARBITRARY POWER

One of the key questions that has guided my work - and is also behind the ECSA-project - is the mutation of capitalism and the necessity to create new concepts for understanding economy and its organization. Significant part of my research has traced the mutation of economic formation of value and the capitalist form of production both historically and logically. I have developed concepts such as arbitrary power, semiocapital and biopolitical economy in order to rethink and conceptualize economy and its organization from the same premise that has led political philosophy to speak of biopolitics. Why? Because if this premise is the absolute condition for thinking politics today (as Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Hannah Arendt for example have stated), it must be so also for thinking economy - since what is at stake in this premise is the general dissolution of the boundaries between economy and other areas of life.

7/30/2023
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