Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-31 Thread Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
Hi Meredith and Annie I think you are spot on Meredith. And yes Annie, I agree about Kei's article. It really set out all the reasons there are to be hopeful about cooperative work in the blockchain space :) Happy new tingalings to you and everyone. x Ruth On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 7:20 PM Meredi

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-29 Thread Meredith Finkelstein via NetBehaviour
In light of Dawn of Everything - of which I am mixed although I Graeber's Debt did change my life I am reminded to this quote in the last chapter "For most of history... the zone of ritual play constituted both a scientific laboratory and, for any given society, a repertory of knowledge and techniq

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-29 Thread Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour
thanks Ruth and Eryk The Kei Kreutler article managed to have me smile and "hope". - Dear friends and colleagues, *please don't send me your signatures systematically* - sending bits costs energy and is POLLUTING On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:39 AM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour < netbehavi

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-29 Thread Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
Dear Eryk, Thanks so much for your long and super-helpful response. Some fragmented thoughts... I LOLled at my discovery of the hidden pages ; ) Sorry about that. It seems that my time in the "crypto tent" (as you put it) has conditioned me to sniff out questions of funding and governance in blo

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-22 Thread Mez Breeze via NetBehaviour
Potential relevant? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_VsgT5gfMc On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 3:02 AM Eryk Salvaggio wrote: > Thank you for the critique Ruth! I agree with much, and what I write here > is just my take. Şerife has also engaged this and may have more to say. > > But first, a major clari

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-22 Thread Eryk Salvaggio via NetBehaviour
Thank you for the critique Ruth! I agree with much, and what I write here is just my take. Şerife has also engaged this and may have more to say. But first, a major clarification: the “invest” page isn’t meant to be accessible, and I’m not sure how you found it — it was a placeholder for extend

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-22 Thread Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
The Excavations project looks delicious! And the Luttecoin video is sooo good! Evocative, stirring and beautifully produced. The project does give me a powerful pang though as I would love to see a Situationist critique of the crypto scene that actually detourned the scene and I'm not sure this i

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-21 Thread Mez Breeze via NetBehaviour
...*head nods in approval*... On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 4:09 PM Eryk Salvaggio via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > > Wanted to share a new piece of work created for an art & research > residency, “Excavations: Governance Archeology for the Future of the > In

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-16 Thread Meredith Finkelstein Chang via NetBehaviour
I love the concept of “Proof of Non-Work Consensus Protocol” - very elegant Consensus algorithm as art practice something I have not seen much of. Much of the current NFT craze is definitely a capitalist spectacle ... The concept of a non-fungible gesture is very compelling. In what way is a smar

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-16 Thread Eryk Salvaggio via NetBehaviour
Indeed Alan! And thanks all for the positive response. Alan, your notes spark something I hadn’t quite anticipated as an outcome of the project, which is a dialogue around “well if we didn’t have [X] we would need to figure out how to [Y],” which is a fruitful conversation to have. Your example

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-16 Thread Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
Absolutely love this! Tired of Situationism, but see this opening up Monolectical-Natural Materialism, Earth-Isness, fantastic! One thing, at least for the elderly or the homeless, you'd have to create something else, untoward; many people rely on their devices as the urban landscape itself becomes

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-15 Thread Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour
This is poetic and apt! The situationist spectacle never did go away, it just expanded a million fold! Lovely piece of commentary On the current state of affairs! Thank you! Simon Sent from my spyphone > On 16 Dec 2021, at 07:42, Julian Brooks wrote: > > Suitably hilarious (we're so fucked)

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-15 Thread Julian Brooks
Suitably hilarious (we're so fucked). Nice work Eryk! Season's Greets to all, J ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, December 16th, 2021 at 05:08, Eryk Salvaggio via NetBehaviour wrote: > Hi all, > > Wanted to share a new piece of work created for an art & research residency, > “Excav

[NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-15 Thread Eryk Salvaggio via NetBehaviour
Hi all, Wanted to share a new piece of work created for an art & research residency, “Excavations: Governance Archeology for the Future of the Internet,” created by UCBoulder and King’s College, London: https://excavations.digital/ The goal was to research pre-digital forms of governance and