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Index
INC Reader #10
MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy
Previously published INC Readers
Contents
The Long Game
Financial Interventions
Critical Currencies
Economies of Imagination
Technologies of Payment
Crowdfunding and Beyond
Appendix
MONEYLAB: COINING ALTERNATIVES
March 21-22, 2014, Lab111, Amsterdam
FRIDAY, March 21, 2014
SATURDAY, March 22, 2014
Author Biographies
When Money Becomes an Extraction Tool Rather Than Exchange Medium: Foreword to the MoneyLab Reader
Saskia Sassen
MoneyLab: Sprouting New Digital-Economic Forms
Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz
References
Money in the Making of World Society
Keith Hart
The Origins of Our Times
A Moment in the History of Money
From Singular to Plural Monies
A Global Power Struggle
Money in a Human Economy
Heads or Tails Revisited
A Note on Historical Periodization
References
Is There Life Beyond Money?
Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Money and Work
A Digression About Language and Money
Abstraction and Automation
Alternative Currencies and the Automation Trend
References
On a Post-Monetary Network Based Economy
Ralph and Stefan Heidenreich
Allocation, Distribution
Matching
Money as Medium
Data Transactions
Ticklish Objects
Human Agents
Multidimensional Values, Ecosystem of Games
Commons and Infrastructure
Futures
Consequences
References
Playability and the Search for an Open Source Economy
Douglas Rushkoff
References
Accumulation and Resistance in the 21st Century
Andrew Ross
Rise of Creditocracy
Democracy and Debt
Abolishing the Debt Sentence
References
Measuring Value in the Commons-Based Ecosystem: Bridging the Gap Between the Commons and the Market
Primavera De Filippi and Samer Hassan
Prelude
Introduction
Value Metric for Commons-Based Entities
Rewards for Contributors to the Commons
The Journey Towards Rewarding Maya
Gratification
Interaction With Market Players
Implications and Benefits
For Commons-Based Entities
For Commons-Based Contributors
For Market Players
Systemic
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Democratizing the Power of Finance: A Discussion About Robin Hood Asset Management Cooperative with founder Akseli Virtanen
Pekka Piironen and Akseli Virtanen
Inculcating Ethical Behaviour in Market Transactions? The Case of the Sharia Online Trading System in Indonesia
Lena Rethel and Irwan Abdalloh
Islamic Finance, Markets and Ethics
Transactional Ethics at the Indonesia Stock Exchange
Islamic Finance: Mainstream/Alternative?
References
Bitcoin as Politics: Distributed Right-Wing Extremism
David Golumbia
References
The Economic Viability of Complementary Currencies: Bound to Fail?
Beat Weber
What Does Complementarity Mean?
a) Complementarity with Respect to Specific Currency Denominations
b) Complementarity with Respect to Specific Geographical Areas
c) Complementarity with Respect to Specific Contracts
d) Complementarity with Respect to Specific Groups
Why Currencies are Accepted
The Role of the Issuer
What Currency Users Expect
Elements of Monetary Networks
Conclusion
References
Financial Capital and the Money of the Common: The Case of Commoncoin
Tiziana Terranova and Andrea Fumagalli
References
Heat Exchanges
Finn Brunton
Hot Bits
Making Money Money
The Trust Bulb
References
Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation
Max Haiven
Marx on Money and the Material Imagination
Life Without Money?
Money as Art as Money
Coda: The Vendôme Column or the Bank of France?
References
Reversal of Fortune: Visualizing Marketized Philanthropy
Stephanie Rothenberg
The Veneer of Philanthropy
Reversal of Fortune
Crowdsourcing the Telematic Embrace
Recent Artwork: Garden of Virtual Kinship
Desiring Subjects, Desiring Plants
Feed the Children Entrepreneurs
References
(W)orld Currency
Paolo Cirio
How it Works
The Equation
The Algorithm
Glossary
Credits
Commission
Selected shows
The Free Money Movement
Jim Costanzo
Genesis
Toil and Trouble
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1791-1794
Multiple Paths to the Commons
References
Wild, Wild West: A View From Two Californian Schoolmarms
Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz
Payment
The Old West
The Old Old West
New Rails
New Territories
New Politics
Acknowledgements
References
Money Talks: The Enclosure of Mobile Payments
Rachel O’Dwyer
The Infrastructural Base of Mobile Communication
Enclosure in Digital Networks
Money is Both a Token and a Rail
Enclosure of the Payments Space
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Mobile Money: Financial Globalization, Alternative, or Both?
Erin B. Taylor
A Brief History of Microcredit
Mobile Money as Finance
The Demand for Mobile Money in Haiti
The Supply of Mobile Money in Haiti
An Alternative, Inclusive Success Story?
Acknowledgements
References
‘Live as Friends and Count as Enemies’: On Digital Cash and the Media of Payment
Eduard de Jong, Nathaniel Tkacz, and Pablo Velasco González
References
Go Crowdfund Yourself! Some Unintended Consequences of Crowdfunding for Documentary Film and Industry in the U.K.
Inge Ejbye Sørensen
In Defense of Crowdfunding
It’s the Distribution, Stupid
The Documentary Economy and Ecology in the U.K.
Declining Documentary Budgets
Regulations, Legislation, and Professional Standards
Go Crowdfund Yourself
Conclusion – The ‘Needle in a Haystack’ Problem
References
Crowdfunding the Commons?
Renée Ridgway
Reward Crowdfunding
Equity-Based Crowdfunding
P2P Lending
Crowdfunding Whatever
Civic Crowdfunding
Sharing Economy cum Platform Capitalism
From Crowdfunding to Crowdvocacy
Goteo’s Social Contract
Crowdfun
Non-Monetary Contributions
The Social Coin
First Citizen Lawsuit Against Banks
Monetization of Social Relations
References
The MoneyLab Crowdfunding Toolkit for Creatives
Irina Enache and Robert van Boeschoten
Adding the Missing Voice
What Does Crowdfunding Involve? Some Numbers
Visualizing Crowdfunding Platforms
In Closing: Critical Comments on the Future of Crowdfunding Platforms
References
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