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Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 00:03:37 JST Nathan Schneider

"This article details how perversion can operate as a technique for establishing novel, voluntary infrastructures."
My latest, with Cassandra Dana, on "perverse attraction": 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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  Dana Burch🗽theres more to love (dana@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 04-Apr-2024 00:45:43 JST Dana Burch🗽theres more to love
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  @ntnsndr wow this is cool
  
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