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