Un recueil de textes en anglais, par une série d’auteurs allemands (dont Ernst Lohoff) sur le thème post-monétaire.
Society after money. A dialogue
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https://zupimages.net/up/23/19/9pby.jpg Everything revolves around money. No individual or collective practice of any kind, no technological or scientific development seems to be conceivable without money. True, money has long been the object of criticism, but the idea of a “post- monetary society” sparks resistance and unease. And yet historical and anthropological studies (e.g. Le Goff 2011; Graeber 2012) show that money has certainly not always occupied the role that it has today—and that it could therefore change its position again. The project “Society After Money” (“Die Gesellschaft nach dem Geld”) was proposed in 2015, and approved for funding as of January 1, 2016 in the framework of the VW funding line “Original—isn’t it?/Constellations.” The aim was, firstly, to initiate dialogue between heterogeneous areas of knowledge, allowing their theories and critiques of money to cast light on each other. The second aim was to think in an open- ended way about the possibility of post- monetary forms of organization and production (cf. also Nelson and Timmermann 2011). But why did this seem relevant to us in the first place?
In the present time, two self- descriptions overlap: on the one hand, there is talk of a “digital revolution,” a “media society,” “networks,” “Industry 4.0.” On the other hand, the present is described as particularly prone to crises: “financial crisis,” “economic crisis,” “planetary boundaries.” So on the one hand there is the description of radical changes in technology and media, and on the other hand, that of profound social dysfunctions. The project is based on the hypothesis that there is a connection, which can be described as the collision between digital media or digital technologies and the medium of money (in addition to other, older conflicts such as that between monetary accumulation and needs). This becomes clear in two respects. Firstly, it hardly seems possible to represent digital media products in the form of commodities. Digital goods are not scarce, since they can, in principle, be reproduced at will. A knowledge or information society based on money is a contradiction in itself. Secondly, there is increasingly urgent debate about whether universally programmable and therefore versatile digital technologies are not making so much labor superfluous, in all industries, that social reproduction by means of wage labor, i.e. labor in exchange for money, is becoming problematic (these problems are discussed in the article by Peter Fleissner1). These obvious problems with monetary mediation (and older problems relating to this) have repeatedly inspired imaginative selfdescriptions of society, especially in science fiction, which envisage a postmonetary future (see the chapter by Annette Schlemm).
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