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Bitcoin from a post-structuralist perspective
Introduction: Bitcoin in the light of poststructuralist theories
In recent years, Bitcoin has attracted immense attention worldwide as a digital currency and decentralized financial system. Originally created as a technological innovation, Bitcoin now has far-reaching implications for the economy, politics and society. Decentralization and the underlying blockchain technology offer new opportunities, but also raise numerous questions that challenge traditional ways of thinking.
In this series of articles, I would like to look at Bitcoin from the perspective of post-structuralist theories. Post-structuralist approaches are particularly well suited to analyzing the fluid, dynamic and often contradictory aspects of Bitcoin. They make it possible to question the fixed structures and binary oppositions that traditional theories often presuppose and to broaden our view of the complexity and multi-layered nature of the phenomenon. In addition, Bitcoin emerged at a time when post-structuralist thinking has been spreading worldwide since the 1960s and has become an important philosophical trend in the Western world. In this way, it may be possible to tie the ostensibly purely technical phenomenon of Bitcoin back into the history of Western ideas.
Chapter overview
In the first chapter, I deal with Jacques Derrida's deconstructivism and its reflection in Bitcoin. In doing so, I show how Derrida's concepts such as difference and iterability are relevant for understanding Bitcoin.
Chapter 2 discusses Bitcoin from the perspective of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the rhizome and their concepts of nomadology and schizoanalysis. Here it becomes clear how Bitcoin as a decentralized, proliferating system follows the principles of the rhizome.
Chapter 3 focuses on Michel Foucault's socio-political analyses, particularly in "Surveillance and Punishment" and their application to Bitcoin. In doing so, I shed light on the power structures and control mechanisms that Bitcoin attempts to circumvent.
In Chapter 4, we look at Baudrillard's idea of the hyperreality of Bitcoin. Here it becomes clear to what extent Bitcoin as a simulacrum creates an independent reality beyond the classical monetary system.
Chapter 5 is dedicated to an analysis of Bitcoin from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The focus here is on the fascination and identification of users with Bitcoin.
Finally, Chapter 6 provides approaches to a systematic analysis of the Bitcoin phenomenon from Luhmann's systems theory perspective. Here I work out the emergence and autopoiesis of the Bitcoin system as a new social system.
These chapters appear here in loose succession.
My aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the way in which the
https://horstwerner.com/bitcoin-aus-poststrukturalistischer-sicht/
Bitcoin from a post-structuralist perspective
Introduction: Bitcoin in the light of poststructuralist theories
In recent years, Bitcoin has attracted immense attention worldwide as a digital currency and decentralized financial system. Originally created as a technological innovation, Bitcoin now has far-reaching implications for the economy, politics and society. Decentralization and the underlying blockchain technology offer new opportunities, but also raise numerous questions that challenge traditional ways of thinking.
In this series of articles, I would like to look at Bitcoin from the perspective of post-structuralist theories. Post-structuralist approaches are particularly well suited to analyzing the fluid, dynamic and often contradictory aspects of Bitcoin. They make it possible to question the fixed structures and binary oppositions that traditional theories often presuppose and to broaden our view of the complexity and multi-layered nature of the phenomenon. In addition, Bitcoin emerged at a time when post-structuralist thinking has been spreading worldwide since the 1960s and has become an important philosophical trend in the Western world. In this way, it may be possible to tie the ostensibly purely technical phenomenon of Bitcoin back into the history of Western ideas.
Chapter overview
In the first chapter, I deal with Jacques Derrida's deconstructivism and its reflection in Bitcoin. In doing so, I show how Derrida's concepts such as difference and iterability are relevant for understanding Bitcoin.
Chapter 2 discusses Bitcoin from the perspective of Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the rhizome and their concepts of nomadology and schizoanalysis. Here it becomes clear how Bitcoin as a decentralized, proliferating system follows the principles of the rhizome.
Chapter 3 focuses on Michel Foucault's socio-political analyses, particularly in "Surveillance and Punishment" and their application to Bitcoin. In doing so, I shed light on the power structures and control mechanisms that Bitcoin attempts to circumvent.
In Chapter 4, we look at Baudrillard's idea of the hyperreality of Bitcoin. Here it becomes clear to what extent Bitcoin as a simulacrum creates an independent reality beyond the classical monetary system.
Chapter 5 is dedicated to an analysis of Bitcoin from the perspective of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The focus here is on the fascination and identification of users with Bitcoin.
Finally, Chapter 6 provides approaches to a systematic analysis of the Bitcoin phenomenon from Luhmann's systems theory perspective. Here I work out the emergence and autopoiesis of the Bitcoin system as a new social system.
These chapters appear here in loose succession.
My aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the way in which the