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Digital Currencies as Infrastructures
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2015-05-18
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Abstract
Currencies are information infrastructures at least because they classify goods (through pricing), communicate prices across markets and establish, maintain and transform social and power relations. Possibly, information goods have always existed. New waves of information technologies (alphabet, paper, printing press, TV, computers) have emphasized those goods' peculiarities: Walter Benjamin wrote about "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" already in 1936 BUT the distinction between information and support has never been so evident since Napster.
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English
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Introduction to 'Gaming Money' Workshop, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 18 May, 2015
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