New videocast online: Finn Brunton in conversation with Nelly Saibel on "History of Digital Cash and Contemporary Crypto Politics"

Schaufler Kolleg@TU Dresden has developed an innovative videocast format that brings the project focus Data↔Worlds to life in a new way. In exciting discussions, our doctoral students meet artists and scientists and explore the interfaces between art, research, and digital society. The format opens up diverse perspectives on how we deal with data in our time—critically, creatively, and interdisciplinarily.

Now, a new videocast on "History of Digital Cash and Contemporary Crypto Politics" is online.

In his presentation at Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden, Finn Brunton (UC Davis) talked about the libertarian roots of digital cash and its manifestations in contemporary politics. In the first part, Finn Brunton traces the history of digital money in the Cypherpunk movement and the Extropians, whereby both movements are dedicated to building a technology that enacts certain ideas and beliefs about the future. The socio-technical reality, on the other hand, no longer has any vision of the future at all. In the second part, Finn Brunton and Nelly Saibel (Schaufler Lab@TU Dresden) talk about religious elements in discourses on digital technologies, tensions in libertarianism, and masculinity in Data-Worlds.