Alex Andrews

I’m Alex Andrews. I am a writer, web developer and academic.

Recent Academic Work

“Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis: Review of The Spectre at The Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession by Andrew Gamble, The Great Credit Crash by Martijn Konings (ed.) and Crisis in the Global Economy: Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios by Andrea Fumagalli and Sandro Mezzadra (eds.)” Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies 5 (2012): 167-171. (download)

Recent Journalism

So Goes California, So Goes The Nation? Occupy Oakland and the Oakland General Strike
Open Democracy, 2011

Current Projects

Records On Ribs
A Creative Commons record label.

Immaterial Labour Isn’t Working
A series of talks, texts and online contributions from artists, activists, technologists and writers examining how digital technology is changing our political and productive selves: from the way we work and play, to the way we make art and even our health. In collaboration with Auto Italia South East and Huw Lemmey.

Recent Talks

“The Memes of Production: The Political Economy of the Internet”
Invited talk for The Left Society, University of Nottingham, April 30th 2012.

“Open Source, Free Association and Housework or The Political Economy of Cute Animal Pictures”
As part of the LuckyPDF School of Global Art, Fierce Festival, Birmingham, April 1st 2012