A Machine Runs in Part on Confidence

Soft pastel and photographs, blackboard paint on MDF board, triptych, 90x30"

The fourth of Hunt’s conceptual maps charting relationships between the globalizing economy as theorized after the 2000 Seattle WTO protests, A Machine Runs on Confidence is a photo and text-based map that thinks through the intellectual and mythical terrain that “narrated” the 2008 financial crisis. Across diagrams rendered in soft pastel and photographs, it charts free market ideology that was then unquestioned as a “protagonist” in a story, considering the relationship between market ideology, cultural templates for subjectivity, and historical narrative, all while the structural sources of the crisis went unaddressed.

The map was originally produced for Printed Project, #12, an issue dedicated to questions of “performative economy,” guest curated/edited by Katya Sander: