Mystical Monetary Theory
2026 - upcoming
Mystical Monetary Theory (MMT) is a conversational system powered by generative AI that seeks to blur the lines between monetary authority and philosophical imagination.
This system self-generatively produce a poetic, unsettling, and oracular discourse based on two corpus.
The first corpus, corresponding to the AI agent that questions, is the poem The Conference of the Birds by Persian mystic Farid ud-Din Attar, written in the 12th century. In this work, a group of birds traverses seven valleys representing the stages of the mystical path. The poem concludes with the revelation that the seeker—the human, represented by the birds—and the sought—the divine— are one.
The second corpus, corresponding to the AI agent that formulates the responses, speeches database of the Bank for International Settlements. This entity, popularly known as the "bank of banks" and headquartered in Switzerland, has shaped contemporary global finance since World War II through reports, regulatory standards, and academic research. Its database contains around twenty thousand speeches delivered by hundreds of officials from over a hundred central banks from 1976 to the present.
This installation interrogates contemporary finance as acts of faith. Ultimately, MMT represents a symbolic space of confluence (questionable due to its reliance on AI systems) that demands a critical reflection, not devoid of humor, on current narratives of financial power and their quasi-sacred character.