Tag: Berlin

• Facing blockchain’s double bind: Trustless technologies and “IRL friends” in Berlin’s NFT community (in New Media and Society)

  How does a community remain committed to an imagined digital future despite that future’s inherent contradictions? This peer-reviewed article analyzes such a challenge as it was faced by Berlin’s NFT (non-fungible token) enthusiasts. Dominant narratives about NFTs and other blockchain technologies envision a virtual and ostensibly trust-free future, but these enthusiasts’ pursuit of such “trustless…

• Tokens, Voids, and Archives: Locating Berlin’s NFT Projects (Published in Platypus)

  Berlin’s NFT projects and events remind us that the users of blockchain, like users of any digital technology, are embodied, emplaced, and encultured beings whose lives extend beyond the immediate site of technological interaction. By extension, the affordances of the technologies they use take on particular meanings and values in local context. In Berlin, one…