Primavera De Filippi
Biographic Data
| ID | 120138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Primavera De Filippi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Primavera |
| FAMILY NAME | De Filippi |
| SIGNATURE | DE FILIPPI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches de Sciences Administratives et Politiques |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5272-7856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The interplay between loyalty and legitimacy in blockchain-based metaverses: The case of Decentraland
This article explores the role of legitimacy in fostering user loyalty in open-source blockchain-based metaverses which offer an innovative alternative to the exit-and-loss logic of large centralized platforms. Specifically, we ask: how do perceptions about the legitimate governance blockchain-based metaverses shape users’ decisions to exit, use their voice, or remain loyal to the platform? Conceptually, we ground our analysis in Albert Hirschman…
How to Govern the Confidence Machine
Emerging technologies pose many new challenges for regulation and governance on a global scale. With the advent of distributed communication networks like the Internet and decentralized ledger technologies like blockchain, new platforms emerged, disrupting existing power dynamics and bringing about new claims of sovereignty from the private sector. This special issue addresses a gap in the literature by focusing the discourse on the issue of trus…
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi
Trust is a key resource in financial transactions. Traditional financial institutions, and novel blockchain‐based decentralized financial (DeFi) services rely on fundamentally different sources of trust and confidence. The former relies on heavy regulation, trusted intermediaries, clear rules (and restrictions) on market competition, and long‐standing informal expectations on what banks and other financial intermediaries are supposed to do or not…
Digital exclosures: Carving Spaces of Autonomy Within Technological Enclosures
International audience
Accountability protocols? On-chain dynamics in blockchain governance
Accountability refers to a relationship of responsibility, answerability, and enforceability between individuals and groups. In contrast to traditional institutions that rely on enforcement of accountability through traditional legal frameworks, blockchain systems rely on the “rule of code”, i.e. the operation, governance, and transactions on a blockchain are governed by pre-written, transparent, and immutable rules that are expressed in software…
El código sigue siendo ley: Entrevista con Lawrence Lessig
En el marco de la conferencia "Blockchain Constitutionalism" (Florencia, Italia, Junio 5 al 7, 2023), Lawrence Lessig reflexiona y discute con Joshua Dávila y Primavera de Filippi, en torno a la vigencia de la idea de Lessig de que en Internet "el código es la ley" (el famoso título de su libro, muy influyente en especial en el mundo cripto), tanto en función de la relación con los valores políticos embebidos en esa arquitectura y su diseño origi…
The rise of cybernetic citizenship
The global COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how states and companies mobilise new sociotechnical systems to track, trace, evaluate, and modulate the behaviour of citizens. This development illustrates an already-existing transformation of citizenship governance, which this article captures as the move to ‘cybernetic citizenship’. First, the article explores the concept of cybernetic citizenship, providing an overview of the concepts of ‘cybernetic’…
Toward a Participatory Digital Ethnography of Blockchain Governance
Blockchain governance occurs through a combination of social and technical activities, involving smart contracts, deliberation within a group, and voting. These processes are significant as they demonstrate how governance of distributed infrastructures is evolving. While typologies of blockchain governance can be constructed by gathering on-chain interactions and formal rules, other aspects are more difficult to observe, including governance inte…
The alegality of blockchain technology
Similar to the early days of the Internet, today, the effectiveness and applicability of legal regulations are being challenged by the advent of blockchain technology. Yet, unlike the Internet, which has evolved into an increasingly centralized system that was largely brought within the reach of the law, blockchain technology still resists regulation and is thus described by some as being “alegal”, i.e., situated beyond the boundaries of existing…
Decentralized Autonomous Organization
A DAO is a blockchain-based system that enables people to coordinate and govern themselves mediated by a set of self-executing rules deployed on a public blockchain, and whose governance is decentralised (i.e., independent from central control)
Reputation
Reputation in a blockchain-based system is a digital representation of an entity's standing or status in a specific domain
Smart contracts
A smart contract is code deployed in a blockchain environment, or the source code from which such code was compiled
Blockchain in Outer Space
Blockchain technology has spurred the emergence of powerful narratives to promote new ways of governing outer space. The list of proposed uses for blockchain applications in outer space is endless—from property registries for asteroid mining, to supply chain management systems, or interplanetary cryptocurrencies for the space economy—along with Elon Musk claiming that “SpaceX is going to put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon.” Yet, thus far,…
Blockchain as a confidence machine: The problem of trust & challenges of governance
Blockchain technology was created as a response to the trust crisis that swept the world in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Bitcoin and other blockchain-based systems were presented as a “trustless” alternative to existing financial institutions and even governments. Yet, while the trustless nature of blockchain technology has been heavily questioned, little research has been done as to what blockchain technologies actually bring to the ta…
Citizenship in the Era of Blockchain-Based Virtual Nations
In the last decades, modern democracies have been witnessing a low rate of political participation and civic engagement with existing governmental institutions. Civic participation is not dead, however, it is only shifting to a new space. In the shadow corners of the internet, people are looking at blockchain technology as a means to replace many of our traditional institutions. While most of the attention was put, initially, on Bitcoin disruptin…
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Transparence des algorithmes face à l’ open data: Quel statut pour les données d’apprentissage
L’utilisation d’algorithmes informatiques au sein des administrations publiques risque d’obfusquer les fondements factuels et juridiques des décisions administratives. Dans l’effort de respecter les principes d’un gouvernement ouvert ( open data ), le législateur s’est jusqu’à présent focalisé sur la transparence de la décision algorithmique, mais rien n’est précisé sur les données qui vont influencer ces algorithmes. Cet article s’intéresse aux …
Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed
Net Neutrality Compendium
Wireless Community Networks: Towards a Public Policy for the Network Commons
Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology: From code is law to law is code
“Code is law” refers to the idea that, with the advent of digital technology, code has progressively established itself as the predominant way to regulate the behavior of Internet users. Yet, while computer code can enforce rules more efficiently than legal code, it also comes with a series of limitations, mostly because it is difficult to transpose the ambiguity and flexibility of legal rules into a formalized language which can be interpreted b…
The invisible politics of Bitcoin: Governance Crisis of a Decentralised Infrastructure
A trustless technology, Bitcoin tries to solve issues of social coordination and economic exchange by relying exclusively on technological means. Is technology alone able to resolve the social and political concerns affecting the Bitcoin network
Net Neutrality Compendium: Human Rights, Free Competition and the Future of the Internet
The invisible politics of Bitcoin: Governance Crisis of a Decentralised Infrastructure
A trustless technology, Bitcoin tries to solve issues of social coordination and economic exchange by relying exclusively on technological means. Is technology alone able to resolve the social and political concerns affecting the Bitcoin network
Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed
Blockchain as a confidence machine: The problem of trust & challenges of governance
Blockchain technology was created as a response to the trust crisis that swept the world in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Bitcoin and other blockchain-based systems were presented as a “trustless” alternative to existing financial institutions and even governments. Yet, while the trustless nature of blockchain technology has been heavily questioned, little research has been done as to what blockchain technologies actually bring to the ta…
The alegality of blockchain technology
Similar to the early days of the Internet, today, the effectiveness and applicability of legal regulations are being challenged by the advent of blockchain technology. Yet, unlike the Internet, which has evolved into an increasingly centralized system that was largely brought within the reach of the law, blockchain technology still resists regulation and is thus described by some as being “alegal”, i.e., situated beyond the boundaries of existing…
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi
Trust is a key resource in financial transactions. Traditional financial institutions, and novel blockchain‐based decentralized financial (DeFi) services rely on fundamentally different sources of trust and confidence. The former relies on heavy regulation, trusted intermediaries, clear rules (and restrictions) on market competition, and long‐standing informal expectations on what banks and other financial intermediaries are supposed to do or not…
The rise of cybernetic citizenship
The global COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how states and companies mobilise new sociotechnical systems to track, trace, evaluate, and modulate the behaviour of citizens. This development illustrates an already-existing transformation of citizenship governance, which this article captures as the move to ‘cybernetic citizenship’. First, the article explores the concept of cybernetic citizenship, providing an overview of the concepts of ‘cybernetic’…
Transparence des algorithmes face à l’ open data: Quel statut pour les données d’apprentissage
L’utilisation d’algorithmes informatiques au sein des administrations publiques risque d’obfusquer les fondements factuels et juridiques des décisions administratives. Dans l’effort de respecter les principes d’un gouvernement ouvert ( open data ), le législateur s’est jusqu’à présent focalisé sur la transparence de la décision algorithmique, mais rien n’est précisé sur les données qui vont influencer ces algorithmes. Cet article s’intéresse aux …
Net Neutrality Compendium: Human Rights, Free Competition and the Future of the Internet
Net Neutrality Compendium
Wireless Community Networks: Towards a Public Policy for the Network Commons
Blockchain technology as a regulatory technology: From code is law to law is code
“Code is law” refers to the idea that, with the advent of digital technology, code has progressively established itself as the predominant way to regulate the behavior of Internet users. Yet, while computer code can enforce rules more efficiently than legal code, it also comes with a series of limitations, mostly because it is difficult to transpose the ambiguity and flexibility of legal rules into a formalized language which can be interpreted b…
The invisible politics of Bitcoin: Governance Crisis of a Decentralised Infrastructure
A trustless technology, Bitcoin tries to solve issues of social coordination and economic exchange by relying exclusively on technological means. Is technology alone able to resolve the social and political concerns affecting the Bitcoin network
Blockchain and value systems in the sharing economy: The illustrative case of Backfeed
Citizenship in the Era of Blockchain-Based Virtual Nations
In the last decades, modern democracies have been witnessing a low rate of political participation and civic engagement with existing governmental institutions. Civic participation is not dead, however, it is only shifting to a new space. In the shadow corners of the internet, people are looking at blockchain technology as a means to replace many of our traditional institutions. While most of the attention was put, initially, on Bitcoin disruptin…
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
Transparence des algorithmes face à l’ open data: Quel statut pour les données d’apprentissage
L’utilisation d’algorithmes informatiques au sein des administrations publiques risque d’obfusquer les fondements factuels et juridiques des décisions administratives. Dans l’effort de respecter les principes d’un gouvernement ouvert ( open data ), le législateur s’est jusqu’à présent focalisé sur la transparence de la décision algorithmique, mais rien n’est précisé sur les données qui vont influencer ces algorithmes. Cet article s’intéresse aux …
Blockchain as a confidence machine: The problem of trust & challenges of governance
Blockchain technology was created as a response to the trust crisis that swept the world in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Bitcoin and other blockchain-based systems were presented as a “trustless” alternative to existing financial institutions and even governments. Yet, while the trustless nature of blockchain technology has been heavily questioned, little research has been done as to what blockchain technologies actually bring to the ta…
Decentralized Autonomous Organization
A DAO is a blockchain-based system that enables people to coordinate and govern themselves mediated by a set of self-executing rules deployed on a public blockchain, and whose governance is decentralised (i.e., independent from central control)
Reputation
Reputation in a blockchain-based system is a digital representation of an entity's standing or status in a specific domain
Smart contracts
A smart contract is code deployed in a blockchain environment, or the source code from which such code was compiled
Blockchain in Outer Space
Blockchain technology has spurred the emergence of powerful narratives to promote new ways of governing outer space. The list of proposed uses for blockchain applications in outer space is endless—from property registries for asteroid mining, to supply chain management systems, or interplanetary cryptocurrencies for the space economy—along with Elon Musk claiming that “SpaceX is going to put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon.” Yet, thus far,…
Toward a Participatory Digital Ethnography of Blockchain Governance
Blockchain governance occurs through a combination of social and technical activities, involving smart contracts, deliberation within a group, and voting. These processes are significant as they demonstrate how governance of distributed infrastructures is evolving. While typologies of blockchain governance can be constructed by gathering on-chain interactions and formal rules, other aspects are more difficult to observe, including governance inte…
The alegality of blockchain technology
Similar to the early days of the Internet, today, the effectiveness and applicability of legal regulations are being challenged by the advent of blockchain technology. Yet, unlike the Internet, which has evolved into an increasingly centralized system that was largely brought within the reach of the law, blockchain technology still resists regulation and is thus described by some as being “alegal”, i.e., situated beyond the boundaries of existing…
El código sigue siendo ley: Entrevista con Lawrence Lessig
En el marco de la conferencia "Blockchain Constitutionalism" (Florencia, Italia, Junio 5 al 7, 2023), Lawrence Lessig reflexiona y discute con Joshua Dávila y Primavera de Filippi, en torno a la vigencia de la idea de Lessig de que en Internet "el código es la ley" (el famoso título de su libro, muy influyente en especial en el mundo cripto), tanto en función de la relación con los valores políticos embebidos en esa arquitectura y su diseño origi…
The rise of cybernetic citizenship
The global COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how states and companies mobilise new sociotechnical systems to track, trace, evaluate, and modulate the behaviour of citizens. This development illustrates an already-existing transformation of citizenship governance, which this article captures as the move to ‘cybernetic citizenship’. First, the article explores the concept of cybernetic citizenship, providing an overview of the concepts of ‘cybernetic’…
Accountability protocols? On-chain dynamics in blockchain governance
Accountability refers to a relationship of responsibility, answerability, and enforceability between individuals and groups. In contrast to traditional institutions that rely on enforcement of accountability through traditional legal frameworks, blockchain systems rely on the “rule of code”, i.e. the operation, governance, and transactions on a blockchain are governed by pre-written, transparent, and immutable rules that are expressed in software…
The interplay between loyalty and legitimacy in blockchain-based metaverses: The case of Decentraland
This article explores the role of legitimacy in fostering user loyalty in open-source blockchain-based metaverses which offer an innovative alternative to the exit-and-loss logic of large centralized platforms. Specifically, we ask: how do perceptions about the legitimate governance blockchain-based metaverses shape users’ decisions to exit, use their voice, or remain loyal to the platform? Conceptually, we ground our analysis in Albert Hirschman…
How to Govern the Confidence Machine
Emerging technologies pose many new challenges for regulation and governance on a global scale. With the advent of distributed communication networks like the Internet and decentralized ledger technologies like blockchain, new platforms emerged, disrupting existing power dynamics and bringing about new claims of sovereignty from the private sector. This special issue addresses a gap in the literature by focusing the discourse on the issue of trus…
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi
Trust is a key resource in financial transactions. Traditional financial institutions, and novel blockchain‐based decentralized financial (DeFi) services rely on fundamentally different sources of trust and confidence. The former relies on heavy regulation, trusted intermediaries, clear rules (and restrictions) on market competition, and long‐standing informal expectations on what banks and other financial intermediaries are supposed to do or not…
Digital exclosures: Carving Spaces of Autonomy Within Technological Enclosures
International audience
Computer Science (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (12 works) · Business (12 works) · Computer security (12 works) · Blockchain (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (6 works) · Sociology (5 works)