How have credit, debt, and payment forms, migrated from paper archives and means to digital forms? How do these developments alter or reshape the world in which they are inscribed? To explore these questions, the course will be divided into four main topics: a) money, what money actually is and a review of its evolution from national to alternative currencies; b) credit/debt, from department-store originated loans to credit cards, from mortgages and subprime mortgages to student debt; c) consumer information, from paper archives in credit bureaus’ basements to credit scores and the ‘all data is credit data’ approach; and d) platform economies and the marketization of data and online activities. These are some of the questions we will engage with by the end of the course. This course will be offered at the 2000 level and made accessible to first- and second-year students. [Tracks C, M]