S01E06 - Jaya Klara Brekke on the Political in Blockchain

Which conceptions of the political are inscribed in blockchain technologies? What is cryptoeconomics? And what does it look like if we disassemble the blockchain truth machine?

Shownotes:

Jaya’s research homepage:

http://distributingchains.info/

Download Jaya’s Dissertation here:

Brekke, Jaya Klara. 2019. Disassembling the Trust Machine. Geography Department, Durham University:

http://distributingchains.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DisassemblingTrustMachine_Brekke2019.pdf

Jaya’s general homepage:

http://www.jayapapaya.net/

Jaya on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/jayapapaya

Wiki of Bitcoin:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Wiki of Bitcoin Cash:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash

Homepage of Ethereum:

https://www.ethereum.org/

Reddit page of Etherum's fork Ethereum Classic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumClassic/

Wiki of “The DAO” (first Decentralized Autonomous Organization on Ethereum):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)

Paper on The DAO by Quinn DuPont:

DuPont, Quinn. 2017. “Experiments in Algorithmic Governance: A history and ethnography of ‘The DAO’, a failed Decentralized Autonomous Organization”. In Bitcoin and Beyond: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains and Global Governance herausgegeben von Campbell-Verduyn, Malcolm. London: Routledge:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319529311_Experiments_in_Algorithmic_Governance_A_history_and_ethnography_of_The_DAO_a_failed_Decentralized_Autonomous_Organization

Haraway, Donna. 2016. Staying with the Trouble. Durham: Duke University Press:

https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble

Weyl, Glen und Eric A. Posner. 2018. Radical Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press:

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.html

Homepage of the book "Radical Markets":

http://radicalmarkets.com/

Vitalik Buterin Talk at the RadicalXChange Conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs8zjLDZrQ

 

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