Paid - Tales of Dongles, Checks, and Other Money Stuff

Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. But what about the debris, the things that allow a transaction to take place and are left its wake? How would a museum go about curating our scrawls on electronic keypads, the receipts wadded in our wallets, that vast information infrastructure that runs the card networks? This book is a catalog for a museum exhibition that never happened.It offers a series of short essays, paired with striking images, on these often ephemeral, invisible, or unnoticed transactional objects - money stuff. Paid's authors describe these payment-adjacent objects so engagingly that for a moment, financial leftovers seem more interesting than finance. Paid encourages us to take a moment to look at the nuts and bolts of our everyday transactions by looking at the stuff that surrounds them.

About the author

Bill Maurer is Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of How Would You Like to Pay: How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money and other books. Lana Swartz is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia.

Summary

Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Maurer, Lana Swartz
• Assisted by: Bill Maurer (Editor), Bill (Professor of Anthropology Maurer (Editor), Lana Swartz (Editor), Lana (University of Virginia) Swartz (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780262035750
• ISBN: 978-0-262-03575-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Infrastructures; Infrastructures
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)