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Moneylab Reader: an Intervention in Digital Economy READER A N INTERVENTION IN DIGITAL ECONOMY FOREWORD BY SASKIA SASSEN EDITED BY GEERT LOVINK NATHANIEL TKACZ PATRICIA DE VRIES INC READER #10 MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy Editors: Geert Lovink, Nathaniel Tkacz and Patricia de Vries Copy editing: Annie Goodner, Jess van Zyl, Matt Beros, Miriam Rasch and Morgan Currie Cover design: Content Context Design: Katja van Stiphout EPUB development: André Castro Printer: Drukkerij Tuijtel, Hardinxveld-Giessendam Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2015 ISBN: 978-90-822345-5-8 Contact Institute of Network Cultures phone: +31205951865 email: [email protected] web: www.networkcultures.org Order a copy or download this publication freely at: www.networkcultures.org/publications Join the MoneyLab mailing list at: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/moneylab_listcultures.org Supported by: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Hogeschool van Amster- dam), Amsterdam Creative Industries Publishing and the University of Warwick Thanks to everyone at INC, to all of the authors for their contributions, Annie Goodner and Morgan Currie for their copy editing, and to Amsterdam Creative Industries Publishing for their financial support. This publication is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. EDITED BY GEERT LOVINK, NATHANIEL TKACZ AND PATRICIA DE VRIES INC READER #10 Previously published INC Readers The INC Reader series is derived from conference contributions and produced by the Institute of Network Cultures. They are available in print, EPUB, and PDF form. The MoneyLab Reader is the tenth publication in the series. INC Reader #9: René König and Miriam Rasch (eds), Society of the Query Reader: Reflections on Web Search, 2014. INC Reader #8: Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives, 2013. INC Reader #7: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader, 2011. INC Reader #6: Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles (eds), Video Vortex Reader II: Moving Images Beyond Youtube, 2011. INC Reader #5: Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin and Sabine Niederer (eds), Urban Screens Reader, 2009. INC Reader #4: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds), Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, 2008. INC Reader #3: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds), MyCreativity Reader: A Critique of Creative Industries, 2007. INC Reader #2: Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli (eds), C’LICK ME: A Netporn Studies Reader, 2007. INC Reader #1: Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds), Incommunicado Reader, 2005. All INC Readers, and other publications like the Network Notebooks series and Theory on Demand, can be downloaded and read for free. See www.networkcultures.org/publications. INTRODUCTION 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 Sørensen 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 introduction 9 When Money Becomes an Extraction Tool Rather Than Exchange Medium: Foreword to the MoneyLab Reader SasKIA SassEN 10 READER When Money Becomes an Extraction Tool Rather Than Exchange Medium: Foreword to the MoneyLab Reader SasKIA SassEN MoneyLab is an exciting and strategic project. The diversity of contributions to this volume is exceptional and promising. It is impossible to do justice to this enormous variety of ideas and proposals in a short preface. I will focus on what we might think of as one step, one building block in the larger debate engaged by MoneyLab: the need to develop new types of currencies to enable new types of economies. We need exchange mediums, such as money. But today’s versions of money are most- ly the official currencies of countries. And these are becoming extremely problematic. Why? Because they function less and less as an exchange medium and more and more as a tool for governments and corporations to extract household resources for their aims, often overriding the basic needs of a country’s people. The official currencies of countries today have become a bridge into household re- sources – a mechanism for extracting value from even poor households. Taxation without citizen participation in how to spend those taxes is another mechanism. The corporatizing of economies is yet another. When corporations capture most of what consumers spend then they also disproportionately control how that household money is invested and allocated (for instance, extreme increases in corporate salaries rather than investing in developing organic food). Under these conditions, money is no longer simply an exchange medium. Nor is it a medium for ensuring large-scale investments – by either governments or corporations – into what a locality, a country, needs for its people. It becomes an instrument for implementing what governments and corporations want. Yet not all alternative moneys are necessarily desirable. The key is a decentralized cur- rency to enable the proliferation of non-corporate economies, and to do so at scales and with modalities that go beyond simple barter. Barter is fine for many operations, and it has thrived in certain settings, notably in parts of Latin America. But it is not enough. We need to scale-up if we are going to take back economic terrain now fully captured by large corporations. And we need to do this, even if some of the larger needs of a locality, notably transport systems, will have to be built by large corporations. Digital currencies are clearly one option. Most recently Bitcoin has drawn a lot of the attention. It has also become a destination for speculative investment. This has in turn raised some key questions, notably whether it is a decentralized currency. The introduction 11 challenge is to avoid the corporatizing of a currency, which is now the situation with more and more official currencies. Again, by corporatizing I mean that it serves to transform household resources (as measured by consumption capacity) into corporate profits, which can then be invested without any concern or need to know a locality’s demands. Mostly, a modest firm that depends on a locality’s choices is going to have to be responsive in a way that the large corporation is not. Further, the power of large corporations to set up franchises which might have to be a bit more responsive to a locality’s needs, mostly winds up eliminat- ing the locally owned businesses so the franchise can rule uncontested – a take it or leave it stance vis-à-vis the locality. Finally, and inevitably, the franchise has to pass on some of the locality’s consumption capacity to central headquarters. Ideally, a decen- tralized currency would favor local initiatives and redistribution in localities. In the last twenty years this shift towards the corporatizing of household money has accelerated and become increasingly acute in more and more of the world. Up to a certain point we need governments and corporations for some of our needs: vast transport systems, public buildings, airports, harbors, and so on. But much of this far too easily winds up using our money for their profit rather than our needs. One result is growing asymmetries of all sorts, marked by growing concentrations of wealth and expanded impoverishment at the other end. There are exceptions here and there, but they are not enough to obliterate these asymmetries. Further, to some extent our governments have enabled the power of corporations to extract household money not just via consumption but also via their policies. The elegantly named ‘quantitative-easing’ is one such example. In this post-2008 crisis period, the U.S. has been the most active government in transferring households’ money to corporations, especially big banks and major financial firms. Only a small portion of this (U.S. $ 320 billion) has been via proper channels – the legislature, where there is a chance of a public debate where we the citizens can, in principle, voice our take on it all.
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