4th Episode: Digital Currency

In the fourth episode we speak to Dr. Laura Lotti, a researcher analyst and writer with 10-year experience investigating digital assets and networked organisations, currently exploring regenerative technocultures. She is also a recovering academic with a background in economics, media studies and philosophy. Our conversation traverses grounds ranging from money forms in the early Ethereum ecosystem, infrastructural mutualism in artistic experiments, to the pragmatic  study of precarity in the Web3 gig economy. 

 Additional Material: 

• ‘Making Sense of Power:’ Repurposing Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy of Individuation for a Mechanist Approach to Capitalism (by Way of François Laruelle). Platform: Journal of Media and Communication. 6(1), pp. 22-33. ISSN: 1836-5132. https://platformjmc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/v6_lotti.pdf    
• Nick Houde and Tara Merk (2023) – Social Security for Web3 Work: A Preliminary Specification of the Design and Deployment of Solidarity Primitives for DAO Contributors. Social Science Research Network. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4596552  
• Laura Lotti, Sam Hart and Toby Shorin (2024) – Crypto’s Three Body Problem https://otherinter.net/research/three-body-problem/

The episode is also available on Spotify.