Established by economist Friedrich Hayek in the Swiss Mountains in 1947, the Mont Pèlerin Society laid down the precepts of contemporary neoliberal economics—proposing an ideology for a world governed by free markets, floating currencies, and deregulation that we live in the legacy of today, much to the detriment of humanity and the planet. For their project, The Mont Pelerin Rewrite, researchers Orit Halpern and Johannes Bruder, with artist Karolina Sobecka, present a performative effort to imagine a different world. Using the format of a workshop, participants reinterpret Article 6 of the Paris Climate Agreement, a complex and contentious operational text outlining rules on how countries can reduce their emissions using international carbon markets. By reworking this central policy document that carries symbolic significance for the entire regime of climate governance, but which is encoded with neoliberal ideology, The Mont Pelerin Rewrite opens up discussion on alternative logics for acting collectively in the face of planetary crisis.
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