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Peer production and local governance through the Blockchain

Local Ledger - 29th March at Raylab, London with Lara, Lisa, Teresa, Alexei, Pete, Amit, Mikey, Ruth

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Blockchain depoliticises people. Alexei suggests that we repoliticise through a local radical technology. How do we mitigate the tendency to depoliticize? Freedom from fiat currencies - barter could be formalised, other examples include social currencies, barter, LETTS. Pete wonders about value of models to play with the implications of blockchain. People would commit to a certain kind of work, proof of presence, prove authenticity of something. Trust platform. We are looking for conflict (the engine of resolution and change). We are looking for social effects and ethics (given the theme of quantified self tech) part of an optimisation process.

Exploration of probable conflict and possible futures.

Improvisation - Pete

Applications to business
Not just making it up as you go along
Improvisation about freedom within a system of rules
I'm playing music - sponteneity and collaborating with research clusters as a musician
and also with improvising actors - theatre practices based on nothing
it can involve structure, constraints and a method
if i have improvising actors and cameras, what is mise en scene - improvising production performance: is the actor leading the camera, or the camera leading the actor
distributed agency, posthuman, improvisation
If you consider the object with characteristics with agency - as an actor in the
working with virtuosos - highlights what you can do

Lara says that within an interaction design process - where you create a flow through a different set of information you develop a number of scenarios to test an idea. What you are observing with user tests are these exactly unscripted unknown reactions

Amit - what is the difference between improvisation and speculation? Pete is playing with different forms of organisation - collective practices and ways of working. A social act of cinema, a collaborative act of cinema.

there is a necessity to not knowing (nothing to do with chance and contingency) its a process that you actively and consciously enter into. Constant cybernetic process - the notion of the offer in improvisation (a real or imagined stimulous to action) eg something about the space, a noise, the attitude of someone in the room.
relaxing into the idea of not knowing
we improvise to experience not knowing
adopting low status has value
loosing has value - it generates
build and offer - always yes and yes

Ruth talks about LARP

Role Play Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss

*** Institute of network cultures example link

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