Cyber-debt, Barter, and Gift Economies
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Petelin, George
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2013
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This chapter argues that some kind of credit economy is unavoidable but that debt and, indeed, profit become more damaging the more abstract and immaterial they become. This is increasingly the case in the period of late capitalism, the era of 'cyberculture'.This chapter argues that some kind of credit economy is unavoidable but that debt and, indeed, profit become more damaging the more abstract and immaterial they become. This is increasingly the case in the period of late capitalism, the era of 'cyberculture'.
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Book Title
in-DEBTed to Intervene: Critical Lessons in Debt, Communication, Art and Theoretical Practice
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Social Change