"Money, as a form of media, is also a technology of memory," sociologist Lana Swartz notes in her book New Money. "It is a distributed, invisible record of human exchange." What is tracked there is the cumulative history of exploitation and dispossession; money is a technology for transferring the advantage that some have wrung from the domination of others forward to their heirs. Money remembers that suffering and assures that it can be revisited exponentially on successive generations. It is, as Marx argues, social relations congealed into a thing.
Miss Albania 1996
Miss Albania 1996
Miss Albania 1996
"Money, as a form of media, is also a technology of memory," sociologist Lana Swartz notes in her book New Money. "It is a distributed, invisible record of human exchange." What is tracked there is the cumulative history of exploitation and dispossession; money is a technology for transferring the advantage that some have wrung from the domination of others forward to their heirs. Money remembers that suffering and assures that it can be revisited exponentially on successive generations. It is, as Marx argues, social relations congealed into a thing.