by Paul Mason
by Posy Simmonds
by Will Self and Martin Rowson
The Guardian invited writers and artists to submit designs for money “fit for modern times.” Many of them are wonderful. Take for instance “The Douglas” by Will Self and Martin Rowson:
The note confers upon the bearer ‘the right to a ritual of some unspecified kind’, and bears a picture of the social anthropologist Mary Douglas, a quote from her book, Purity and Danger, and an assortment of indigenous peoples’ fiscal clutter, such as cowrie shells and spirit boards’
via curiosity counts
