Foreword: dead money / Bruce Sterling -- Introduction: curating transactional things / Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz -- Dongles / Scott Mainwaring -- Checks / Lisa Servon -- Tattoos Lynn gamble -- Mag stripe / Dave Stearns -- Ledgers / Taylor Nelms -- Dogecoin / Sarah Jeong -- Khipu / Gary Urton...

This essay explores the organisational character of Facebook's Libra currency by undertaking a critical reading of documents published by the Libra Association. Drawing on the conceptual work of Marilyn Strathern and Michel Serres, it illustrates how ownership cuts the network and encourages...

While it has often been described as a money transfer product, when mobile money reaches scale it can also be seen as a network infrastructure and platform facilitating the exchange of cash and electronic value between various economic actors including clients, businesses, the government, and...