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Cache society: transactional records, electronic money, and cultural resistance

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  • Rachel O’Dwyer

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Money is an ‘instrument of collective memory’ before it is a means of exchange, a unit of account or a store of value. Money's status as a memory technology is particularly significant in light of the role that information and communication technologies now play in economic transactions. Many of the new channels and infrastructures for payments, such as magnetic cards, mobile phones, the wired Internet, social media platforms, and RFID technologies, record detailed transactional data alongside a range of other identifying data. We now have extremely detailed records of the many ways that money circulates, is transferred and is spent. This paper concerns this previously latent transactional data and how it is currently recorded, monetised, and used to inform action. What has been recorded in and about money at different moments in time and how are these categories breaking down? Who has access to and ownership over this collectively produced record and how is it driving new data practices and business models based on the monetisation and application of monetary records? And how might re-engaging with money's mnemonic status help to foreground a politics and ethics of transactional data?

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  • Rachel O’Dwyer, 2019. "Cache society: transactional records, electronic money, and cultural resistance," Journal of Cultural Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(2), pages 133-153, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jculte:v:12:y:2019:i:2:p:133-153
    DOI: 10.1080/17530350.2018.1545243
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