> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://glossary.ecsa.io/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://glossary.ecsa.io/finance.md). # Finance ECSA is using finance as its medium of expression. Why? Because, economically and politically, if we want to build postcapitalism, we must recognize the power of finance as an organizational technology that can connect the future and the present. That is why there is no question in our mind that postcapitalism is a financial system: finance is a non-state way of connecting the future and the present. ECSA wants to reengineer finance, liquidity and risk flows, flows of dependencies and potentialities, to work with its materiality, with the divergent capacities lying latent but definitely built-into its matter. Financial technologies are moldable, plastic, synthetic – just waiting for an artist’s touch to make them start producing different socialities. Finance as our material and medium, we want to attach directly to art’s power to create unforeseen, previously unknown and unthinkable economic, political, social, incorporeal processes. See Navigation. --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. GitBook is the documentation platform designed so that both humans and AI agents can read, navigate, and reason over technical content effectively. Learn more at gitbook.com. ## Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://glossary.ecsa.io/finance.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.