Documentaries by Jaya Klara Brekke
crisis-scape.net, Mar 1, 2014
How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city? Our final 35' d... more How does a global financial crisis permeate the spaces of the everyday in a city? Our final 35' documentary film traces the multiple transformations of crisis-ridden Athenian public space and those who traverse it. Future Suspended is divided in three sections. “Privatised” explores the legacy of mass privatisation projects that preceded the 2004 Olympics, placing them in the context of present day privatisation schemes. “Devalued” gazes at the ever-shrinking spaces of migrants in the city and the devaluation of their lives that comes as a result. “Militarised” shows how, in face of the crisis, this devaluation turns into a generalised condition. Through its cinematic traversal of today's Athens, "Future Suspended" traces the rise of the authoritarian-financial complex and how this shrinks public space in the city, fuelling social despair and anger in return. Future Suspended is part of the research project at crisis-scape.net. The research team consists of Christos Filippidis, Antonis Vradis, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Ross Domoney and Jaya Klara Brekke. All music for Future Suspended was composed by Giorgos Triantafyllou. This film is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND licence. Details here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en_GB
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The White Paper, 2019
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto published a revolutiona... more In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto published a revolutionary white paper that described a simple peer-to-peer electronic cash system that would later become Bitcoin. In the decade since the launch of the digital currency, the nascent blockchain technology behind Bitcoin has been heralded as having the same radical potential as the printing press or the Internet, in particular presenting extraordinary challenges to traditional banking. Yet the paper contains no reference to existing political ideas, monetary or economic knowledge. Why?
The White Paper returns to Nakamoto's canonical text as a Rosetta Stone that reveals the far-reaching implications of decentralisation, with crypto-economist Jaya Klara Brekke's Guide demonstrating how it can serve as the compass for a rapidly shifting terrain of contemporary techno-politics.
The introduction by James Bridle, leading technologist, artist and author of New Dark Age, situates Bitcoin within an obscure historical movement, powered by the ideologies of encryption, showing how blockchain is part of a wider project to redraw the maps of political possibility.
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Punctum Books, 2018
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Published by crisis-scape.net This publication is part of the City at a Time of Crisis project h... more Published by crisis-scape.net This publication is part of the City at a Time of Crisis project http://www.crisis-scape.net Funded by the ESRC Designed by Jaya Klara Brekke Photography by Ross Domoney (pages 42, 102, 166 and 206) Antonis Vradis (pages 62, 91 - 101) Dimitris Dalakoglou (page 8) Andreas Chatzidakis (page 32) Printed in Athens by Synthesi http://synthesi-print.gr Edited by Jaya Klara Brekke, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Christos Filippidis and Antonis Vradis. Chapters 15 and 22 translated from Greek by Antonis Vradis ISBN: 978-1-938660-15-3
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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Oct 1, 2022
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Internet Policy Review, 2021
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Peer-to-peer networks and protocols have inspired new ideas and ideologies about governance, with... more Peer-to-peer networks and protocols have inspired new ideas and ideologies about governance, with the aim of using technology to enable horizontal and decentralized decision-making at scale. This article introduces the concept of “dissensus” from political theory to debates about peer governance in online communities. Dissensus describes the emergence of incompatible differences. Among peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain stands out as a set of ideas that explicitly seek to resolve dissensus through consensus protocols. In this article, we propose dissensus as a “protocol” for foregrounding the often sidelined yet productive aspects of incompatible differences. The concept highlights that there might not always be consensus about a consensus algorithm, and that indeed, dissensus is the precondition for new possibilities and perspectives to emerge. We discuss the concept in relation to the histories of governance ideas in blockchain, namely, a “materialist,” “design,” and “emergent”...
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This report provides a background for building a framework for implementing and federating digita... more This report provides a background for building a framework for implementing and federating digital complementary currency experiences, and for improving their social benefits. Enabling communities to manage exchange using alternative digital social currencies as new tools for growing a civic sharing economy, including a strong role for interoperable digital social currencies remains the principal goal.
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City, 2014
Debates about migration tend to force a representation of migrants into two categories: criminal ... more Debates about migration tend to force a representation of migrants into two categories: criminal or victim. Both of these categories feed each other and form the basis for discourses that substantiate the need for detention prisons and the incarceration of migrants. Map.crisis-scape.net is an online map of racist attacks with a focus on Athens, Greece. One aim of the map has been to attempt a different type of representation of the issues surrounding migration that does not place the migrant at the centre of attention, but instead focuses on the violent conditions that affect their lives.
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Blockchain technology is, in part, a proposal to resolve ‘the political’ through technical means:... more Blockchain technology is, in part, a proposal to resolve ‘the political’ through technical means: decentralised networks to solve the problem of authority; cryptography to coordinate and secure the network; and game theory and incentive design to solve network behaviour. This PhD thesis draws on theoretical work by Karen Barad (2007) and Jacques Ranciere (Ranciere, 2010) to ask the question of what matters politically in blockchain technology – both in the sense of matter as becoming material of a new mediation of the political, but also mattering in the sense of being of political importance to engineers, developers and communities forming around blockchain as a potential. Rather than treating blockchain as coherent thing to be either celebrated or criticised, this thesis proposes and attempts to draw out the ways in which the potentials of blockchain are negotiated as part of its political effects, looking towards these negotiations to understand how political differences are made...
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Documentaries by Jaya Klara Brekke
Books by Jaya Klara Brekke
The White Paper returns to Nakamoto's canonical text as a Rosetta Stone that reveals the far-reaching implications of decentralisation, with crypto-economist Jaya Klara Brekke's Guide demonstrating how it can serve as the compass for a rapidly shifting terrain of contemporary techno-politics.
The introduction by James Bridle, leading technologist, artist and author of New Dark Age, situates Bitcoin within an obscure historical movement, powered by the ideologies of encryption, showing how blockchain is part of a wider project to redraw the maps of political possibility.
Papers by Jaya Klara Brekke
The White Paper returns to Nakamoto's canonical text as a Rosetta Stone that reveals the far-reaching implications of decentralisation, with crypto-economist Jaya Klara Brekke's Guide demonstrating how it can serve as the compass for a rapidly shifting terrain of contemporary techno-politics.
The introduction by James Bridle, leading technologist, artist and author of New Dark Age, situates Bitcoin within an obscure historical movement, powered by the ideologies of encryption, showing how blockchain is part of a wider project to redraw the maps of political possibility.
Link to download of the paper and the full journal issue of "ŠUM#15: Infrastructure as Critique": sumrevija.si/en/issues/sum-15/