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The paper I co-authored with @katyoj 'Blockchain Imaginaries and Their Metaphors' is available in #openaccess. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… It focuses on the performative role of #blockchain imaginaries and metaphors, which guide technologists, enthusiasts and adopters 🧵

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The material dimensions of capitalism are staggering. In 2020, the amount of human-made mass exceeded for the first time the dry weight of all life on Earth. Its current increase corresponds to each person on the globe producing more than their body weight every week.

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The paper I co-authored with @katyoj 'Blockchain Imaginaries and Their Metaphors' is available in #openaccess. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… It focuses on the performative role of #blockchain imaginaries and metaphors, which guide technologists, enthusiasts and adopters 🧵

This research was carried out as part of our work for the @articonf project, and is now published online in @SocEpistemology.

Blockchain technology expands computation’s universalising logic by laying claim to all those elements, and its protocol was designed to be their technical infrastructure.