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His book begins with the realisation that ever less humans will remember the first time they went on the Internet. He writes that there will no longer be memories of what people saw or looked for, if one was alone facing the screen, what actual place one was in when first surfing the web. I know where he was, mid-nineties, back in that central library of the grey city where he began using the name Elyashib. I also know that he cannot mind that I pasted all his words here.

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Prologue

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. Amaranthine

3.3. Prepare for landing

References

Annex: List of anonymised interviewees