**Preprint** to appear in Defining Web3 (DuPont, Dylan-Ennis, and Kavanagh, 2022) Now, should we trust these people, no matter how well-intentioned they might be, to guide society into the future, … I’d say “no.” ~ Evgeny Morozov, “Web3: A Map in Search of a Territory” In a recent essay, Evgeny Morozov offers a critical biography of web3 by tracing its popular rhetoric through Tim O’Reilly and Marc Andreessen. Inhabiting the spirit of arche-critic David Golumbia, he discovers vast “linguistic...

**Preprint** to appear in Defining Web3 (DuPont, Dylan-Ennis, and Kavanagh, 2022) Now, should we trust these people, no matter how well-intentioned they might be, to guide society into the future, … I’d say “no.” ~ Evgeny Morozov, “Web3: A Map in Search of a Territory” In a recent essay, Evgeny Morozov offers a critical biography of web3 by tracing its popular rhetoric through Tim O’Reilly and Marc Andreessen. Inhabiting the spirit of arche-critic David Golumbia, he discovers vast “linguistic...