Social Discipline

SD 34 - w/ Wassim Z. Alsindi - ₿etween Collective Salvation and Private Enrichment

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Show Notes

Crypto collapse! Simply HODL and stay with us while we talk with Wassim Z. Alsindi: veteran of the timechain, founder and host of the 0x Salon, conducting experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems. Today he guides us through the speculative hellscape.

Some resources:

(blockchain-time) Reminiscences of a Clock Operator https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/jmysxacr/

(nfts/digital art) The Revolution Will Not Be Tokenised https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/nl45krtx/

(bitcoin indeterminacy) Bitcointingency https://weirdeconomies.com/contributions/bitcointingency

(on memes) https://spectrumstore.com/en/memetic-counterculture-starter-pack

(on daos) DAOcolonisation 0x Salon Audio Report https://0xsalon.pubpub.org/pub/fbeqr4q3/release/1?readingCollection=a777270b

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