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This is a the recording of a panel I organized and moderated in Febuary 2020 as part of my research fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. The panel critically discusses the expansion of cryptoeconomics into an 'art of government'. The panelists are: - Jaya Klara Brekke (Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University) - Benjamin Seibel (Director of the Ideation & Prototyping Lab at the Technologiestiftung Berlin and author of “Cybernetic Government”) - and Martin Köppelmann (Co-founder and CEO of Gnosis) Description:Cryptoeconomics is a design-paradigm that is used, among other things, for the protocol layer of almost all currently existing blockchains. It is intended to generate security guarantees for the reliable execution of these protocols by combining economic incentives/penalties (-economics) with applied computer science (crypto-). Apart from this specific use case in distributed, “decentralized” networks, cryptoeconomic design principles are being promoted by some to be an adequate way of “designing” social interactions and institutions in areas not related to questions of network security.Shownotes:Homepage Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society:https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/Homepage Weizenbaum Research Group 17 (Trust in Distributed Environments):https://weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/governance-and-norm-setting/trust-in-distributed-environments/Research Group 17 on Twitter:https://twitter.com/JWI_TruDiHomepage Jaya Klara Brekke:http://www.jayapapaya.net/Jaya's dissertation homepage:http://distributingchains.info/...and the dissertation itself:Brekke, Jaya Klara. 2019. Disassembling the Trust Machine. Durham University:http://distributingchains.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DisassemblingTrustMachine_Brekke2019.pdfJaya on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jayapapayaMartin Köppelmann Portrait by his companys blog:https://blog.gnosis.pm/gnosis-portraits-martin-köppelmann-ceo-co-founder-7953211e079aHomepage Gnosis:https://gnosis.io/Gnosis on Twitter:https://twitter.com/gnosispm?lang=deMartin Köppelmann on Twitter:https://twitter.com/koeppelmann?lang=deCircles on Twitter (Blockchain UBI project initiated by Martin):https://twitter.com/circlesubi?lang=deHomepage Maker DAO:https://makerdao.com/en/Homepage DAOStack:https://daostack.io/Benjamin Seibel on Twitter:https://twitter.com/bnjmnsbl?lang=deHomepage Ideation & Prototyping Lab (led by Benjamin):https://lab.technologiestiftung-berlin.de/en/Seibel, Benjamin. 2016. Cybernetic Government. Wiesbaden: Springer:https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783658124892Rubinstein, Ariel. 2012. Economic Fables. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (open access):https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/136Hargreaves, Shaun und Yanis Varoufakis (Hg.). 2004. Game Theory: A Critical Introduction. London:  Routledge:https://www.routledge.com/Game-Theory-A-Critical-Introduction/Hargreaves-Heap-Hargreaves-Heap-Varoufakis-Varoufakis/p/book/9780415250955Homepage of Ethereum:https://ethereum.org/Homepage of "Radical Markets" by Weyl & Posner:http://radicalmarkets.com/Buterin, Vitalik und Glen Weyl. 2018. „Liberation Through Radical Decentralization“. Blogbeitrag medium.org (zuletzt abgerufen Januar 2022):https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/liberation-through-radical-decentralization-22fc4bedc2acWeitere Future Histories Episoden zum Thema:S01E01 | Benjamin Seibel zu Kybernetik:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01e01-benjamin-seibelS01E06 | Jaya Klara Brekke on Blockchain and the Political:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01e06-jaya-klara-brekkeIf you like Future Histories, you can support the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me via office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ www.futurehistories.today #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #JanGroos, #Zukunft, #Digitalisierung, #BigData, #Herrschaft4.0, #Kybernetik, #Cybernetics, #Algorithmen, #Gouvernementalität, #algorithmischesRegieren, #blockchain, #krypto, #crypto, #cryptoeconomics, #KryptoÖkonomie, #WeizenbaumInstitut, #Weizenbaum, #Foucault, #Gnosis, #MartinKöppelmann, #JayaKlaraBrekke, #BenjaminSeibel, #Internetinstitut, #BlockchainGovernance, #Ethereum, #Bitcoin, #VitalikButerin, #VladZamfir, #GavinWood, #critique, #radicalMarkets, #GelnWeyl, #Wirtschaftskritik, #HeterodoxeÖkonomie, #PluraleÖkonomik, #FutureHistoriesInternational,

What could desirable imaginary futures look like? Richard Barbrook brings up some very interesting ideas on this question and explores past and present futures in order to work towards different worlds to come.ShownotesRichard on Monoskop:https://monoskop.org/Richard_BarbrookRichard on Twitter:https://twitter.com/richardbarbrook?lang=deHomepage "Imaginary Futures":http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/Homepage "Class Wargames":https://www.classwargames.net/?tag=richard-barbrookBarbrook, Richard und Andy Cameron. 1995. "The Californian Ideology". In Science as Culture 6(1). 44-72:http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/Barbrook, Richard. 2000. "Cyber Communism". In Science as Culture 9(1). 5-40:http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/cyber-communism-how-the-americans-are-superseding-capitalism-in-cyberspace/Homepage Digital Liberties cooperative:https://digitalliberties.org.uk/Homepage "Games for The Many" (who made e.g. CorbynRun):http://gamesforthemany.org/Homepage Technopolitics Research Group:http://www.technopolitics.info/Hanna, Thomas und Joe Bilsborough. 2018. "The ‘Preston Model’ and the modern politics of municipal socialism". In openDemocracy 12(2018):https://www.academia.edu/39696129/The_Preston_Model_and_the_modern_politics_of_municipal_socialism?email_work_card=view-paperWiki on "Austro Marxism":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AustromarxismReport "Alternative Models of Ownership":https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Alternative-Models-of-Ownership.pdfHomepage "The World Transformed" Festival:https://theworldtransformed.org/Newspeak House (group of political technologists):https://www.nwspk.com/Marx, Karl. 2015. Grundrisse. marxists.org:https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/grundrisse.pdfWiki about Robert Owen:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_OwenArchive of the American Society for Cybernetics:http://asc-cybernetics.org/online-library/Homepage "Virtual Futures":http://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/Richta, Radovan. 1969. Civilization at the Crossroads. New York: Routledge:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315177663Phillips, Leigh und Michal Rozworski. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart. London: Verso:https://www.versobooks.com/books/2822-the-people-s-republic-of-walmartMedina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionariesStafford Beer on Monoskop (with short video on Project Cybersyn):https://monoskop.org/Stafford_BeerWiki "Project Cybersyn" (socialist cybernetics in Chile):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CybersynBastani, Aaron. 2020. Fully Automated Luxury Communism. London: Verso:https://www.versobooks.com/books/2757-fully-automated-luxury-communismHomepage Novara Media (of which Aaron Bastani is a co-founder):https://novaramedia.com/Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. “Digital Socialism". In New Left Review 116/117:https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialismCampaign for a 4-Day-Week:https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/German campaign for a 4-Day-Week:https://www.4tagewoche.de/Exhibition "Red Vienna" at the MUSA in Vienna:https://www.wienmuseum.at/en/exhibitions/upcoming/detail/das-rote-wien-1919-1934.htmlKeynes, John Maynard. 1930. “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”. In Essays in Persuasion. New York: Harcourt Brace. 358-373:https://assets.aspeninstitute.org/content/uploads/files/content/upload/Intro_and_Section_I.pdfWiki Charles Fourier:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_FourierWiki ARPANET:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANETWiki RAND Corporation:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_CorporationWiki "Austrian School of Economics":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_SchoolWiki Friedrich Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_HayekWiki "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_SerfdomThematisch angrenzende Future Histories Episoden:Was ist die Kalifornische Ideologie? Future Histories Kurzvideo:https://youtu.be/LedG4UgG3t8 If you like Future Histories, you can support the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me via office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureHistoriesPodcast/featuredwww.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords:#RichardBarbrook, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Cybernetics, #Kybernetik, #Podcast, #CalifornianIdeology, #KalifornischeIdeologie, #Hayek, #Monoskop, #AndyCameron, #CyberCommunism, #Communism, #Technopolitics, #Cybersyn, #StaffordBeer, #DigitalSocialism, #EvgenyMorozov, #ImaginaryFutures, #SiliconValley, #Economy, #TheRegulationOfLiberty, #HypermediaResearch, #NetRevolution, #DotComCapitalism, #algorithm, #Algorithmus, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #AlgorithmischesRegieren

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.pdfJaya’s general homepage:http://www.jayapapaya.net/Jaya on Twitter:https://twitter.com/jayapapayaWiki of Bitcoin:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitcoinWiki of Bitcoin Cash:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_CashHomepage 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_OrganizationHaraway, Donna. 2016. Staying with the Trouble. Durham: Duke University Press:https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-troubleWeyl, Glen und Eric A. Posner. 2018. Radical Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press:https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11222.htmlHomepage of the book "Radical Markets":http://radicalmarkets.com/Vitalik Buterin Talk at the RadicalXChange Conference:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs8zjLDZrQ If you like Future Histories please consider supporting the show on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Get in touch: office@futurehistories.today or via Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcasthttps://www.youtube.com/c/FutureHistoriesPodcasthttps://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ Episode Keywords:#JayaKlaraBrekke, #JanGroos, #Blockchain, #PolitischeÖkonomie, #Zukunft, #Cryptoeconomics, #Netzwerk, #Netzwerke, #DezentralisierteNetzwerke, #Etherum, #Algorithmen, #AlgorithmischesRegieren, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #FutureHistoriesInternational