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Paid : tales of dongles, checks, and other money stuff / edited by Bill Maurer and Lana Swartz ; foreword by Bruce Sterling.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Maurer, Bill, 1968- editor.
Swartz, Lana, editor.
Sterling, Bruce, writer of foreword.
Series:
Infrastructures series.
Infrastructures Series
Standardized Title:
Paid (MIT Press)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Money--History.
Money.
Electronic funds transfers.
Automated tellers.
Telematics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Summary:
Stories about objects left in the wake of transactions, from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string.
Contents:
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
Cards / Lana Swartz
Cash / Alexandra Lippman
Signatures / Bill Maurer
Tallies / David Graeber
Sharing / Maria Bezaitis
Leaves / Whitney Trettien
Minitel / Julien Mailland
Receipts / Jane Guyer
ATMs / Bernardo Batiz-Lazo
Graybacks / Keith Hart
The swipe / Michael Palm
Ether / Rachel O'Dwyer
Silver / Finn Brunton.
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
0-262-33834-3
0-262-33833-5
OCLC:
986223466

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