[Un]equal Values is a conceptual writing project that investigates how space, power, and currency shape perceptions of human worth. Inspired by David Graeber’s theory of value and social logic—communism, exchange, and hierarchy—it explores how money reorganises social relations and exposes underlying inequalities across different sites.
Through site-writing and numerical storytelling, the project begins with the value of £10 and expands across time, place, and culture to examine alternative currencies: from cigarettes in prisons to potatoes in rural Georgia, and slave girls as symbols of rank in Medieval Ireland. These case studies form a layered narrative revealing how systems of value, economy, and social meaning are deeply entangled.
