5th Episode: Community, Commons and Crypto

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’.

 Additional Material: 

• Ruth Catlow & Penny Rafferty (eds).Radical Friends – Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts” Torque editions, 2022, https://www.furtherfield.org/radical-friends-book/
• Brouwer, J. & Van Tuinen, S. (eds.) (2023). Technological Accidents, Accidental Technology. V2_Publishing including Bordeleau’s essay “The Derivative Community: On Soulful Asset Formation”: https://v2.nl/publications/technological-accidents-accidental-technologies
• Digital Soul-Searching: : The Sphere Book https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xe5a192aaf911c35fb47de1342e768ef01c84fa09/37

The episode is also available on Spotify.