Some Questions for a Global Anthropology of Digital Money
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About the talk:
This presentation (held in Spanish) explores a global anthropology of digital money.
It proposes to focus on the institutions that contribute to establishing, legitimizing,
and guaranteeing the rules for using digital monies, the way in which actors are integrated
into or excluded from this use, and the social hierarchies and power relations that
articulate these processes. The presentation considers six forms of digital money:
state-bank currencies, means of payment controlled by large non-state technology companies,
central bank digital currencies, monies produced by non-state for-profit companies,
cryptocurrencies, and digital monies produced according to egalitarian utopias. It
addresses these different processes through three cross-cutting questions: the hierarchies
between users of digital monies, the hierarchies between digital monies, and the way
in which digital monies are co-constituted with a multiplicity of power relations
that go beyond monetary and digital practices.
About the speaker:
Horacio Ortiz is senior researcher at IRISSO, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, France and associate professor, School of Social
Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, China. His research is concerned
with money and finance from a global perspective, with a qualitative focus on the
everyday practices of financial professionals. He has conducted research in New York,
Paris and Shanghai. He is the author of The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment.
Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value, Columbia University Press, New York, 2021.
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