vnprc on Nostr: So true. My stack of books to read only ever gets taller. This paper is a long one. ...
So true. My stack of books to read only ever gets taller.
This paper is a long one. I'm about 1/3rd through it. I probably won't finish before BitDevs tonight.
The good news is that the author spends 30 pages summarizing the following ~180 pages so you can get the big picture without wading through the whole thing.
The TL;DR is that academic anthropologists are bad at their jobs. This is the first serious anthropological treatment of the crypto community. Those who came before just gussied up their own opinions in the jargon of their field and pretended they were doing valuable science.
She links the crypto movement to historical American political battles over money and the (true) belief that money is a collective hallucination.
I'm reading between the lines but I think her field experience radicalized her. Good! It's amazing what happens when you set aside your preconceived notions and try to understand things from a different perspective. I hope it becomes a trend in the field.
This paper is a long one. I'm about 1/3rd through it. I probably won't finish before BitDevs tonight.
The good news is that the author spends 30 pages summarizing the following ~180 pages so you can get the big picture without wading through the whole thing.
The TL;DR is that academic anthropologists are bad at their jobs. This is the first serious anthropological treatment of the crypto community. Those who came before just gussied up their own opinions in the jargon of their field and pretended they were doing valuable science.
She links the crypto movement to historical American political battles over money and the (true) belief that money is a collective hallucination.
I'm reading between the lines but I think her field experience radicalized her. Good! It's amazing what happens when you set aside your preconceived notions and try to understand things from a different perspective. I hope it becomes a trend in the field.