Index

____CONTENTS

Saskia Sassen
When Money Becomes an Extraction Tool Rather Than Exchange Medium:
Foreword to the MoneyLab Reader	9

Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz
MoneyLab: Sprouting New Digital-Economic Forms	13

____THE LONG GAME

Keith Hart
Money in the Making of World Society	19

Franco “Bifo” Berardi
Is There Life Beyond Money?	32

Ralph and Stefan Heidenreich
On a Post-Monetary Network Based Economy	44

Douglas Rushkoff
Playability and the Search for an Open Source Economy	56

Andrew Ross
Accumulation and Resistance in the 21st Century	64

____FINANCIAL INTERVENTIONS

Primavera De Filippi and Samer Hassan 
Measuring Value in the Commons-Based Ecosystem:
Bridging the Gap Between the Commons and the Market	74

Pekka Piironen and Akseli Virtanen
Democratizing the Power of Finance: A Discussion About Robin Hood Asset 
Management Cooperative with Founder Akseli Virtanen	92

Lena Rethel and Irwan Abdalloh
Inculcating Ethical Behaviour in Market Transactions?
The Case of the Sharia Online Trading System in Indonesia	104

____CRITICAL CURRENCIES

David Golumbia
Bitcoin as Politics: Distributed Right-Wing Extremism	117

Beat Weber
The Economic Viability of Complementary Currencies: Bound to Fail?	132

Tiziana Terranova and Andrea Fumagalli
Financial Capital and the Money of the Common: The Case of Commoncoin 150 

Finn Brunton
Heat Exchanges	158

____ECONOMIES OF IMAGINATION

Max Haiven
Money as a Medium of the Imagination: Art and the Currencies of Cooperation 173 

Stephanie Rothenberg
Reversal of Fortune: Visualizing Marketized Philanthropy	189

Paolo Cirio
(W)orld Currency	198

Jim Costanzo
The Free Money Movement	202

____TECHNOLOGIES OF PAYMENT

Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz
Wild, Wild West: A View from Two Californian Schoolmarms	221

Rachel O’Dwyer
Money Talks: The Enclosure of Mobile Payments	230

Erin B. Taylor
Mobile Money: Financial Globalization, Alternative, or Both?	244

Eduard de Jong, Nathaniel Tkacz, and Pablo Velasco
‘Live as Friends and Count as Enemies’: On Digital Cash
and the Media of Payment	257

____CROWDFUNDING AND BEYOND

Inge Ejbye Sorensen
Go Crowdfund Yourself! Some Unintended Consequences of Crowdfunding for 
Documentary Film and Industry in the U.K.	268

Renée Ridgway
Crowdfunding the Commons?	281

Irina Enache and Robert van Boeschoten
The MoneyLab Crowdfunding Toolkit for Creatives	295

____APPENDICES

MoneyLab Conference	304
Author Biographies	305