<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Machine Dreams #1 | Cryptoeconomics and the Decolonization of Money<div class="">
<div class="entry-content"><p class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1002060553983258" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="">Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 19.30 Uhr, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery</a></p><p class="">Conversation with<br class="">
<strong class="">Jonathan Beller</strong> | <strong class="">Max Grünberg</strong></p><div class=""><a href="http://diffrakt.space/en/machine-dreams-1-cryptoeconomics-and-the-decolonization-of-money/" class="">http://diffrakt.space/en/machine-dreams-1-cryptoeconomics-and-the-decolonization-of-money/</a></div><p class="">While for most critical observers cryptoeconomic protocols are but
forms of rightwing extremism, theoreticians like Jonathan Beller raise
the question whether this technology might be salvageable – or indeed
emergent – to be put to use for emancipatory projects that aim to go far
beyond current extractive monetary logics. Beller understands this
possible redesign of what he calls “economic media” as “the
decolonization of money,” a process that must break with the absolute
reduction of qualities to the quantity of exchange value – and which
moves to more inclusive forms of valuation, what he refers to, following
Randy Martin, as “social derivatives”. But can the expression of
abstract labor be simply redesigned within the capitalist system? We
will discuss his insights and provocations in relation to other
political trajectories like the abolition of the value-form and past
monetary experiments by Proudhon and the Ricardian socialists.</p><p class=""><strong class="">Pandemic:</strong> <em class="">Since the event is an in-person event
and the number of participants thus, in accordance with current COVID-19
regulations, strictly limited, anyone who would like to attend will
need to register in advance with a short message to <a class="">mail@diffrakt.space</a>.
Following the 2G rule, masks will not be required, but all attendees
will have to present either proof of vaccination or proof of recent
recovery.</em></p><p class=""><a href="http://diffrakt.space/machine-dreams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class=""><em class=""><strong class="">Machine Dreams</strong></em></a>
is a series of events that explores the role of technology in the
realization of a post-capitalist future. It begins this exploration from
the premise that any emancipatory project aiming at a larger scope than
the commune has to be mediated somehow technologically, as a strict
rejection of abstraction and computation will bind any progressive
movement within the local. Far from perishing in technological
solutionism, these mediations constitute a necessity and should never be
mistaken with a sufficiency: political struggle has to operate around
and through them. This series is dedicated to their identification and
critical examination, the disclosure of concrete utopias, from
cybernetic socialism to crypto-mutualism, that allow us to reclaim a
positive image of the future.</p><p class="">Organised by <strong class="">Max Grünberg</strong></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>