The Commons Institute has been a partner of the Project Society After Money, which now has released the book »Society After Money. A Dialogue«. Project Society After Money is an interdisciplinary project between commons theory, evolutionary political economy, media studies and sociology, that enter into a dialogue with one another in order to look at their specific theories and criticisms of money. Conceived as the beginning of a necessary interdisciplinary dialogue, the possibilities of post-monetary forms of organization and production are taken into account and examined. A follow-up project has started, where again the Commons Institute is part of.
The current book is available at Bloomsbury. You may ask your library to purchase it!
Table of contents
Introduction
Part 1: A Society After Money?
1 Historical Position, Characteristics and Perspectives of Current Approaches to Post-Monetary Economic Activity – Lars Heitmann
Part 2: Concept and Crisis of Money
2.1 The Elephant in the Room: The Money Commodity and its Mysteries – Ernst Lohoff
2.2 Monetary Mechanisms: Origins, Dynamics and Crisis – Tobias Kohl
2.3 Trialogue: Money as Medium or as General Commodity? – Ernst Lohoff, Hanno Pahl, and Jens Schröter
2.4 On the Possibility of a Society after Money: Evolutionary Political Economy, Economic Subjectivity and Planetary-Scale Computation – Ernest Aigner and Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle
Part 3: Money as an Alien
3 Post-Monetary Elements in Utopian Literature and Science Fiction – Annette Schlemm
Part 4: Mediation After Money
4.1 A Critical View on the Criticism of Money – Christian Siefkes
4.2 Categorical Foundations of a Post-Monetary Society – Stefan Meretz
4.3 The Post-Capitalist Feminism Cookie. The Main Course: A Commons-Creating Peer Production as a Possible Future – Friederike Habermann
4.4 Trialogue: Implicit and Explicit Views of Human Nature – Friederike Habermann, Stefan Meretz, and Christian Siefkes
Part 5: Mediality After Money
5.1 Are We Approaching a Moneyless Society? – Peter Fleissner
5.2 Money: For a Non-Money Economy – Stefan Heidenreich
5.3 Money and Digital Media – Jasmin Kathöfer and Jens Schröter
Afterword – Anitra Nelson