Lana Swartz

My essay, "Goodbye, Wallet" mediafieldsjournal.squarespace.com/goodbye-wallet/ is out in Media Fields Journal mediafieldsjournal.org

My Civic Paths HotSpot on payment systems and crowdfunding is now up: identi.ca/url/75938451

Headed to Barcelona June 2 for alternative economic practices working group meeting

I will be presenting on transactional data on Saturday, May 8 at Mit8 at MIT identi.ca/url/75763859

Speaking on UC Irvine Social Science Expert Series panel, "How New Technologies are Changing Money," 4/25 6pm identi.ca/url/75718436

My MIT masters thesis was cited in this awesome PBS Idea Channel vlog on knock-offs: identi.ca/url/75668551

Collaborative paper on Twitter, YouTube, and the Occupy Movement out from Information, Communication, and Society v.gd/lwEze6

Paper on Bitcoin written with Bill Maurer and Taylor Nelms now out from Social Semiotics! v.gd/XhknaH (PDF)

Presenting at AAG on "Finance, Debt and the Realization of Value in the Social Factory" panel 4/9/2013 v.gd/jwbJ24

"Payment Technologies: Past, Present and Future," a provocation by Bill Maurer and me for our workshop at UC-Irvine v.gd/FAubsa

My piece in Cultural Anthropology's Theorizing the Contemporary: Finance, guest edited by Bill Maurer identi.ca/url/75631313

Collaborative paper on Youtube, Twitter, and the Occupy Movement is now out from Information, Community, and Society tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

In particular, see my entry on the “Schadenfreude Economy” (in which I mention Cat Marnell and also oat pancakes) bit.ly/ZYv7Mq

Check out our Civic Paths HOT.SPOT: The Dark Side(s) of DIY. Pretty spooky stuff! civicpaths.uscannenberg.org/the-dark-sides…

Presenting Friday Nov 16 at 2pm at NCA on panel, "Historical Reflections on the Rhetorics of Money and Monetary Policy"

My piece in Cultural Anthropology's Theorizing the Contemporary: Finance, guest edited by Bill Maurer culanth.org/?q=node/579

Look for me in this Cultural Anthropology Hot Spot - Theorizing the Contemporary: Finance edited by Bill Maurer culanth.org/?q=node/561

Attending the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program, July 9 - July 20. oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/sdp/

I will be a Graduate Fellow at Futures of Finance, the Bruce Initiative Institute for Public Knowledge spring conference 4/12-13 at NYU

My working paper from last year about Invisible Children now online - civicpaths.uscannenberg.org/wp-content/upl… // For context, see civicpaths.uscannenberg.org/wp-content/upl…