Abstract
Explores and critiques the information and communication means that were created for capitalist profit-making, showing how we can subvert these and use them for our own non-capitalist purposes. Machines Against Measures shows that in times of capitalist restructuring and multiple social reproduction crises, there open up new possibilities to experiment with quantity, measuring, machines and digital technologies, creating new ways of production and transaction. Within these, are ways of sharing and producing that defy many principles of capitalist relations.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780755639595 |
| Publication status | Published - 29 Jun 2023 |
Keywords
- money
- technology
- monetary
- non-monetary
- digital
- currency
- collective
- quantity
- measure
- organization and management
- Finance
- financial technology
- fintech
- grassroots
- community
- parallel currencies
- community currencies
- solidarity economy
- heterodox finance
- heterodox economics
- money theory
- monetary theory
- theory of value
- community organising
- quantification
- zero price