A diagram/ drawing to explain, or hopefully partially explain the financial crisis and some of the intent behind it - at least from a UK perspective. This is an attempt produce something simple and accessible, that condenses things so that everyone can understand.

Now the dust has settled on the collapse of the banking industry, William Dixon looks back at some crisis bestsellers and finds their limit in a lack of systemic analysis and insistence on reform

In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real repercussions of the financial crisis bite, the Bretton Woods ideological state apparatus is looking rather threadbare. The strategy to placate social desires through cheap credit, property acquisition and the decoration of domestic surfaces continues against a muted backdrop of factory occupations, boss-nappings, foreclosures, and the dregs of what looks to be Big Brother’s last season.

In the subprime crisis, which followed a mass desire to live above one's means, the usury that allowed it demonstrates the connected notions of productive capital and the heterosexual family unit. Here, Melinda Cooper and Angela Mitropoulos trace usury's genealogy in political economics, and praise those subprime ‘speculators' who are inverting its exorbitant demands