Philosophical investigation of the metaverse and NFTs /3
The philosopher Gilles Deleuze is one of the “items” on my Philosophical Loot Bag. Searching on NFT-marketplaces for “Deleuze'“ gives interesting results, such as this NFT Robot, a song using text fragments from "Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze as lyrics. Duration is 743 minutes and the price is 3 ETH. I hope they’ll be able to find an audience and even buyers in a space where bored apes and cryptopunks are setting the standard for success. The Postscript on the...
Philosophical investigation of the metaverse and NFTs /3
The philosopher Gilles Deleuze is one of the “items” on my Philosophical Loot Bag. Searching on NFT-marketplaces for “Deleuze'“ gives interesting results, such as this NFT Robot, a song using text fragments from "Postscript on the Societies of Control” by Gilles Deleuze as lyrics. Duration is 743 minutes and the price is 3 ETH. I hope they’ll be able to find an audience and even buyers in a space where bored apes and cryptopunks are setting the standard for success. The Postscript on the...
Cyberculture mind map
Trying out a new experiment,making a screen recording of a mind map slideshow. I made this mind map some years ago, loosely inspired by the book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner. “Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might thi...
Cyberculture mind map
Trying out a new experiment,making a screen recording of a mind map slideshow. I made this mind map some years ago, loosely inspired by the book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner. “Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might thi...
Philosophical investigation of the metaverse and NFTs /2
In the first post of this series I wrote about the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935). There is another text I really find fascinating - but difficult. The text, The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels), offers a weird reading experience. I got glimpses of understanding, of something which one could call “the truth” of that text, but only glimpses and there is no truth I can somehow ...
Philosophical investigation of the metaverse and NFTs /2
In the first post of this series I wrote about the philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935). There is another text I really find fascinating - but difficult. The text, The Origin of German Tragic Drama (Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels), offers a weird reading experience. I got glimpses of understanding, of something which one could call “the truth” of that text, but only glimpses and there is no truth I can somehow ...
Philosophical investigation of the metaverse and NFTs /1
Philosophy to me is a way to clarify the conceptual lense we use to look at the world. There is always a lense, we always use conceptual structures to interpret the world. Clarification often also leads to inspiration, or so I hope, also regarding “the metaverse'“ and “NFTs”. In this first post of a series, I’ll do some brief studies of philosophers who can offer insights about the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In later posts the list can be expanded or modified. “Metaverse” ...
Philosophical investigation of the metaverse and NFTs /1
Philosophy to me is a way to clarify the conceptual lense we use to look at the world. There is always a lense, we always use conceptual structures to interpret the world. Clarification often also leads to inspiration, or so I hope, also regarding “the metaverse'“ and “NFTs”. In this first post of a series, I’ll do some brief studies of philosophers who can offer insights about the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In later posts the list can be expanded or modified. “Metaverse” ...
First NFT on OpenSea
The Metaverse Then and Now
