PreviousNextPrologueActually bearing such recall, or burdened with the stupefying impression that web always was, some living beings now sense how digital technologies open up a precipice of uncertainty, as yet rimmed with thin and rickety fences, which we may straddle. You also may remember, the days when web became two point zero. From a pack of theorists, agitators, their indistinguishable service, some twenty years back, we became aware that we’d witnessed the first era of the web. And so...

NextContentsPrologue 1. The Internet of blockchains, a brand new web of contrary accounts 1.1. The ethos of communities, and blatant individualism 1.2. Disruption, or perfecting capitalism 1.3. Pragmatic solutionism, total commodification 1.4. Superficial contradictions 2. Making lies, making value 2.1. Intense communication and cultural labour 2.2. Back to ideology 2.3. Performances of value 2.4. Power – and its tokens 2.5. Gassy arguments 3. Flight, grounded 3.1. Slave tokens 3.2. Amaranthi...

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