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LUNAR ECLIPSE Note: This essay originally appeared in the book Supramarkt: How to Frack the Fatal Forces of the Capitalocene . Available for republishing under CreativeCommons I worked as a financial derivatives broker in London from 2008 to 2010, at a company clinging on for life in the midst of the financial crisis. That is not a particularly long time to work as a broker, but I was never aspiring to it as a career. I was a left-wing activist steeped in the tradition of Marxian political economy and deep-ecology environmentalism, and with a background in anthropology and international development. I was on a quasi-anthropological adventure on the ‘dark side’, immersing myself in the culture of high finance in an act of subversive exploration. HIGH FINANCE I say ‘quasi-anthropological’ because it is not exactly like I approached it with a formal academic mindset, and I was never attached to an academic institution. There are professional anthropologists like Karen Ho and Caitlin Za...

[Note: An up to date blogpost about the book appears here , and the book's page is here ] This blog has been on the down low over the last few months because I've been writing a book. The book is now finished, 78 579 words aimed at   providing a gateway for an individual to gain access to the matrix of global finance. It's called The Heretic's Guide To Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money .  It will be published in May 2013 by Pluto Press , a fantastic independent publisher based in Highgate, London, who have published such societal shitstirrers as Noam Chomsky , Edward Said , Vandana Shiva , Susan George, and John Holloway, amongst others. I've often found that I'll read an interesting book providing a critique of the financial system, but then I'll put it down and that's kind of the end of it. I store the info away somewhere and pull it out during a conversation maybe, but I don't really act on it. Thus, when Pluto approached me to write a b...