Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care

'Declarations of Dependence' rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics.

Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of political economy known as Modern Monetary Theory.

Applying the insights of this theory, Ferguson contends that money, rather than representing a private, finite, and alienating technology, is instead a public and fundamentally unlimited medium that harbors still-unrealised powers for inclusion, cultivation, and care.