Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the PlatformWherever you look, money is being re placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer datathe list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities? Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history

rising seas

One of the basic challenges in the work of artist Idan Hayosh is the search for an order

which consists largely of limestone

He wrote extensively on the national question from the perspective of the KPJ

” Plus this issue includes a spiral bound supplement collecting artists’ visual responses to lockdown across China

fragmented narrative

Butler draws upon Foucault

shedding light on the diversity of his photography career

Francis Alÿs

and cultural flow

The texts are all based on papers presented at the series of conferences entitled Resonances

on screens and in spaces being invented