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5th Episode: Community, Commons and Crypto

Moving Through Financial Activism and Crystallising the Challenge of Occupying Financial Abstraction

05.05.2025

In the firth episode, we have the pleasure of speaking to Erik Bordeleau, a philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and media theorist based between Berlin and Lisbon, where he is currently a researcher in Cinema and Philosophy at the NOVA University. Erik shares his thoughts about the relationship of community, commons and crypto moving through financial activism and crystallising the challenge of occupying financial abstractions to his work in instigating new ecologies of funding for the performing arts with the project ‘The Sphere’.

 

 

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The episode is also available on Spotify.

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Andrea Leiter & Erik Bordeleau, 5th Episode: Community, Commons and Crypto: Moving Through Financial Activism and Crystallising the Challenge of Occupying Financial Abstraction , Völkerrechtsblog, 05.05.2025.
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 Andrea Leiter

Andrea Leiter is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Center for International Law working on technology enabled governance. She also co-founded the Dutch non-profit organization Sovereign Nature Initiative, working at the intersection of ecology, technology and economics.

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Erik Bordeleau

Erik Bordeleau is a philosopher, curator, fugitive planner and media theorist based between Berlin and Lisbon, where he is currently researcher in Cinema and Philosophy at the NOVA University.

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