The Great Offshore

Making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader’s brain

• ALGOFFSHORE is a series of algorithmic flowcharts that documents various strategies of offshoring and tax optimization.

• The Sea is Glowing pays attention to the most singular and uncanny incarnations of the offshore phenomenon : Art freeports, Luxembourg space mining futuristic projects, Malta’s golden passports programs, seasteading experimental projects and Flags of convenience and the End of Life Flags.

• The Space Offshore dives into the futuristic activities of the offshore industry shed a crude light on the negotiations around space governance that happen today, far away from the public eye.

Resources reading list

Learning. Using the library. Opening articles and books. Reading. More.

• loopholeforall, Paolo Cirio, Interview to be published in april 2021 in “THE GREAT OFFSHORE”, a collection of text on offshore, edited by RYBN.ORG.

• State to Stateless Machines: A Trajectory, James Bridle, 2019

• Offshore Finance: How Capital Rules the World, Reijer Hendrikse and Rodrigo Fernandez, KU Leuven, 2019

• Outside of Borders, Rachel O’Dwyer, 2019

• A Utopia for Money: A visit to the secretive art warehouse at the Singapore airport, Max Haiven, 2017

• The Revolution Will Be Digitized in Panama Papers Mossack Fonseca Tally, John Doe, 2016

• You and me and the TCC: Finance and Urban Form, Brian Holmes

• The city and its double, Vera Tollmann & Boaz Levin, 2016

• Duty-Free Art, Hito Steyerl, 2015

• Caribbean mirage: Living in a blindspot of financial architecture, Femke Herregraven, 2010. Geographies of Avoidance, 2011, addresses the financial offshore system and avoidance of financial regulation, an index of a place that doesn’t want to be indexed.

• Hack back!, Phineas Fisher, with a translation in the anarchist library

• The Off-Shore Economist: Tactics, Brett Scott