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Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 05:00:37 JST Nathan Schneider

Out today! A long-coming research article with Cassandra Dana on sex and crypto-money.
"Perverse attraction: Idolatry, pornography, and the making of infrastructure," just out at Zygon https://www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/11013/
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  Perverse attraction: Idolatry, pornography, and the making of infrastructure
  
  The making of novel infrastructure often involves some kind of faith. This article considers a pair of experiments in the context of blockchain infrastructure led by entrepreneur Ameen Soleimani: MolochDAO and SpankChain, a grant fund and a sex-worker payments network, respectively. These enact a strategy we describe as “perverse attraction,” or the inversion of dominant moral hierarchies as a means of cultivating faithful practice around a still-incomplete infrastructural project. Although the technology at play is new, the strategy for advancing it reiterates the development of past infrastructures, from print cultures to the early internet. These precursors and the present case suggest that the strategy of perverse attraction, while occurring under the guise of empowerment, risks reinforcing the marginalization of its human participants.
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  John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 05:45:23 JST John Mark Ockerbloom
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  @ntnsndr Glad to see (and also glad that the full run of Zygon back to 1966 is free to read online! I cataloged it a few weeks ago.)
  
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  Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 05:45:23 JST Nathan Schneider
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  @JMarkOckerbloom Yes, I'm excited to be in it (though I imagine my media studies colleagues are a bit baffled)
  
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