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Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Temporary Success of the Home Movement

i wonder if you could speculate a little bit about places where these kind of critiques can take space if not on the blockchain if that other news become foreclosed. is interesting i came kind of in my my journey as a critic of the nft and it's very straightforward sense to recently to understand that the the temporary success of the home movement was illustrative of an otherwise significant speculative deficit in practice and in critique so you described with this Douglas Adams analogy this idea that we would be able to create things that are not like what we already know but don't necessarily adhere to predefined or easily understandable categories. I think that's an aspect of critique that is is both elusive and it's really troubling

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