The following interview was conducted by Inte Gloerich as part of Artists, Activists, and Worldbuilders on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations: Conversations about Funding, Self-Organisation, and Reclaiming the Future a new anthology on arts, culture and subverting decentralized tech for radical purposes.
What does DisCO governance accomplish? It encourages and rewards all types of work: care, love and livelihood. It values forms of power to act and highlights effective and movement building work, which is often hidden. It optimally balances the workload to avoid activist burnout. It creates community empowered platforms for sustainable activism.
The “just break things”, DIY approach to creating Web 2.0, exemplified by a particular subset of Gen X technologists in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, only led to the entrenchment of a new power structure.
DisCO is an accessible approach to people working together to create value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics. Get the lowdown here.
What do automation, remote working, and the knowledge economy have in common? All three are among the typical answers to the question, “what is the future of work?”, and they all depend on emergent technologies.
How can we have a more human-centered economy if we delegate some of our more sensitive interactions to on-chain governance, as seen in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations?
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