An electronic allegory of Casino Capitalism
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An electronic allegory of Casino Capitalism
Powered by an input of online community, the Value Quest Bourse brings an issue of value, labour and accumulation of capital in a digital era. A gameplay depicts the perpetual movement of the social-economic-aesthetical metamorphoses of value, a never ceasing conversion of value into some sort of capital: social, economic, or knowledge capital. Transfer your click-labour into social critique...
An electronic roulettebased engine will transfer your click-labour into bourse idices in real time. Build the community aggregated score of the VQ Industrial Sectors...
VQ Glossary tackles a theme of economic/moral crisis, makes reference to critical examples in the arts, and gives explanations of key terms relating to the Value Quest Bourse.
This unique public debt security will enable fulfillment of future social capital requirements. Get involved in digital over-the-counter transaction...
The Golden Card, the main prize at the VQ roulette live set up, contains coded answer to the question: what is value?
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01/0402/0403/0404/04The Value Quest Bourse is an allegory of socioeconomic system driven by mechanisms of the Greed Economy. The bourse depicts casino capitalism as a roulette whose ultimate goal is high Index of Fortune. The VQ roulette, a metaphor for popular medieval concept the Wheel of Fortune, reflects stages of contemporary socioeconomic cycle: Expectation, Success, Bankruptcy, Reform.
In VQ roulette you do not play for your own profits but for the sake of VQ industrial sectors. To waged bet at VQ Bourse you have to select an industrial sector for which you play. The bet options at the roulette table represent three necessary elements for achieving a goal in games, economics or life; those are strategies, resources, disposition of the environment. The score of the game determines the bourse indices.
To facilitate quest for value we created the Perpetual Bond which serves as a security of values distinguished by a public. The bond is based on agreement or promise made by the bond-holder that he/she takes responsibility for the survival of identified value. This play becomes actuality in consumption.
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