TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards DAOs of difference
T2 - reading blockchain through the decolonial thought of Sylvia Wynter
AU - Gloerich, Inte
PY - 2023/9/7
Y1 - 2023/9/7
N2 - With this article, I explore the connections between blockchain technology, coloniality, and decolonial practices. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s thought on the interdependent systems of colonialism, capitalism, and knowledge, as well as more recent work on the coloniality of digital technologies, I argue that blockchain-based systems reproduce certain dynamics at work in historical colonialism. Additionally, Wynter’s decolonial propositions provide a generative framework to understand countercultural practices with. Inspired by Wynter, Patricia de Vries explores the notion of “plot work as artistic praxis” to ask how artistic work, implicated as it is in capitalist logics, can create space for relating dierently in the context of the exploitations of those dominant logics. I apply this notion to examine how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) in the countercultural blockchain space might contribute to this praxis.
AB - With this article, I explore the connections between blockchain technology, coloniality, and decolonial practices. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s thought on the interdependent systems of colonialism, capitalism, and knowledge, as well as more recent work on the coloniality of digital technologies, I argue that blockchain-based systems reproduce certain dynamics at work in historical colonialism. Additionally, Wynter’s decolonial propositions provide a generative framework to understand countercultural practices with. Inspired by Wynter, Patricia de Vries explores the notion of “plot work as artistic praxis” to ask how artistic work, implicated as it is in capitalist logics, can create space for relating dierently in the context of the exploitations of those dominant logics. I apply this notion to examine how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) in the countercultural blockchain space might contribute to this praxis.
KW - blockchain
KW - DAOs
KW - coloniality
KW - decolonialism
KW - wynter
KW - prefiguration
U2 - 10.7146/aprja.v12i1.140448
DO - 10.7146/aprja.v12i1.140448
M3 - Article
SN - 2245-7755
VL - 12
SP - 162
EP - 176
JO - A Peer Reviewed Journal About: Minor Tech
JF - A Peer Reviewed Journal About: Minor Tech
IS - 1
ER -