A session delivered as part of the project "Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub"
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Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub was a Fund 8 Project Catalyst project exploring key blockchain concepts through the lens of philosophy. This session looked at key elements of how a blockchain works, and linked them to philosophical concepts.
You can see the slides used in the session, and some links for further reading.
Sees blockchain as a philosophy in its own right; looks at it from the standpoint of 80s cyberpunk, 2000s solarpunk, and crypto-anarchism.
Jack Parkin, 2020
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2019
Nick Land, 2018
Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, Sam Skinner, 2017
- Sasha Shilina, 2023
@sshshln, 2023
Melanie Swan and Primavera de Filippi, 2017. Record of a symposium that aimed to define a philosophy of blockcahin. Interesting read.
Renato P. Dos Santos, 2017
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2019. Looks at bockchain through the lens of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Rocoeur’s narrative history
by @sshshln, 2023
Renato P. Dos Santos, 2017
Fernando Sanchez, 2020 Accessible and quite short, on blockchain’s fundamentally determinist approach
Andrew M. Bailey, Bradley Rettler and Craig Warmke, 2021
Gian Segato, 2021 - short and entertaining read, comparing Aquinas’s idea of causality to the structure of a blockchain.
Peter Wolfendale, 2021
Tobey Scharding, 2018. Short opinion-piece about the ethics of Bitcoin through the lens of Kantian ethics.