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