Disassembling the Trust Machine (seminar series)
On 22 October 2018 the 8-week seminar series commissioned and hosted by the New Centre for Research and Practice came to an end. To mark it, the reading list and the questions worked through in the sessions were published here.
The seminar had four overarching aims:
- Begin outlining a field of political cryptoeconomics
- Discuss and give conceptual tools for a critical understanding of the political in relation to complex networked computer systems
- Discuss and give an overview of the political tendencies, histories and conflicts in the blockchain space
- Discuss new political thinking emerging out of the blockchain space
Thanks went to all the students who took part, and to the New Centre for Research and Practice, in particular Patrick Schabus and Mohammad Salemy, who facilitated the series and issued the invitation.
Brett Scott and Rachel Rose O’Leary were thanked for their presentations and discussion in sessions 4 and 6.