A Digger Dollar issued by the “Free Men of the Whole World,” transforming the form of paper money into a declaration of the new free economy. The bill keeps the frame of official currency while subverting every part of it: the dollar portrait is inverted, the denomination becomes “1:1,” and the value is named as love, time, and the free exchange of human energy. As with much Digger printing, the piece works by turning the symbols of the money system back against themselves, making “free” not an absence of value but the beginning of another standard of value altogether. |