A research group representative and a PhD student at the University of Vaasa Alesha Serada presented their research on blockchain, freedom and exploitation at the international transdisciplinary conference Indeterminate Futures \/ The Future of Indeterminacy hosted by University of Dundee, Scotland, on November 13-15, 2020. Their talk explored the concept of #datapolitik as applied to blockchain-based algorithmic governance.<\/p>\n
How do deterministic technical milieus and the growing mass of unstructured data configure #datapolitik \u2013 a set of operations that regulate space-time through the cybernetic feedback loop, tracking, capture, and feelings of safety or threat?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The conference was hosted by the project The Future of Indeterminacy: Datification, Memory, Biopolitics<\/em><\/a> funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. Karen Barad, Franco Berardi and Xin Wei Sha were keynote speakers.<\/p>\n
The future is no longer seen as open. It’s seen as precarious on the one hand, and technologically over-determined on the other. Economic uncertainty, the rise of the risk society, the culture of fear and neoliberal necropolitics are seen as a serious threat. The risk society attributes all hazards to human decisions; the culture of fear cultivates the tendency to catastrophise; neoliberal necropolitics welds technology to the exploitation of natural and social reserves in an irreversible way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
More information about the event and its full agenda can be found in this call for papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Presentations from the conference are now available on video, including Alesha’s presentation “The Historical Determinism of Blockchain (and Its Limits).” Watch the presentation here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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