TY - CHAP

T1 - Governing Objects from a Distance

T2 - Blockchains as Organizers of Environmentality

AU - Leistert, Oliver

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Of the phenomena in the field of media technologies that have conquered imaginations and funding buckets recently, blockchain technologies, next to artificial intelligence and machine learning, might be considered the most striking example. The blockchain constitutes a protocological internet layer for values that corresponds to a continuing monetization pressure and ongoing expansion of identification strategies. Notwithstanding these trajectories, behind this prospective killer application resides first of all a sovereign chronological regime that has the capacities to prove and modulate the existence, identity and administration of data, assets, goods and services from a distance on granular scales.

AB - Of the phenomena in the field of media technologies that have conquered imaginations and funding buckets recently, blockchain technologies, next to artificial intelligence and machine learning, might be considered the most striking example. The blockchain constitutes a protocological internet layer for values that corresponds to a continuing monetization pressure and ongoing expansion of identification strategies. Notwithstanding these trajectories, behind this prospective killer application resides first of all a sovereign chronological regime that has the capacities to prove and modulate the existence, identity and administration of data, assets, goods and services from a distance on granular scales.

KW - Digital media

U2 - 10.14619/1716

DO - 10.14619/1716

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SP - 5

EP - 20

BT - Explorations in Digital Cultures

A2 - Burkhardt, Marcus

A2 - Shnayien, Mary

A2 - Grashöfer, Katja

PB - meson press

CY - Lüneburg

ER -