Multitudes 2025/4
Journal article

Freeze to Thaw!

Negate the “Active” Form

Pages 198 to 202

Cite this article

  • JUÁREZ, Geraldine,
  • Translated from english (United Kingdom) by BOURGERON, Théo,
2025. Freeze to Thaw! Negate the “Active” Form. Multitudes, 2025/4, p.198-202. DOI : 10.3917/mult.101.0198. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2025-4-page-198?lang=en.
  • Juárez, Geraldine.,
  • et al.
« Freeze to Thaw! : Negate the “Active” Form ». Multitudes, 2025/4, 2025. p.198-202. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2025-4-page-198?lang=en.
  • Juárez, G.,
  • Translated from english (United Kingdom) by Bourgeron, T.
(2025). Freeze to Thaw! Negate the “active” Form. Multitudes, 198-202. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.101.0198.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.101.0198

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Cite this article

  • Juárez, G.,
  • Translated from english (United Kingdom) by Bourgeron, T.
(2025). Freeze to Thaw! Negate the “active” Form. Multitudes, 198-202. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.101.0198.
  • Juárez, Geraldine.,
  • et al.
« Freeze to Thaw! : Negate the “Active” Form ». Multitudes, 2025/4, 2025. p.198-202. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2025-4-page-198?lang=en.
  • JUÁREZ, Geraldine,
  • Translated from english (United Kingdom) by BOURGERON, Théo,
2025. Freeze to Thaw! Negate the “Active” Form. Multitudes, 2025/4, p.198-202. DOI : 10.3917/mult.101.0198. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2025-4-page-198?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.101.0198

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Assets thrive on liquidity, but they also enact a freezing of their own, a freezing of the underlying. How can we undo the cold reign of the asset economy? By turning state practices of asset freezing into the basis for a pirate tactic of de-assetization. De-assetization means freezing over the pipes that keep capital circulating; it also means applying heat to the notion that everything in the world can and should be frozen in order to release more liquid flows of cash.

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https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.101.0198

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