Money after Blockchain
Gold, Decentralised Politics and the New Libertarianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5854643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona Allon (0000-0003-1932-1464) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 96 |
| Pages | 223-243 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08164649.2018.1517245 |
| OpenAlex | W2893588862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
Blockchain technologies are central to what has been described as a new 'smart social contract'. With blockchain, individual cryptographic identity becomes the basis for new forms of money and for a whole suite of restructured social, political and financial transactions. But what do these developments signal for feminist engagements with the money economy? The transparency and pseudonymity that the blockchain provides has been welcomed as a 'feminist weapon'. But the decentralised technology also legitimises many longstanding assumptions of libertarianism, especially competitive individualism, naturalised social inequality and the stability of value associated with the gold standard. Drawing on popular culture texts, Goldfinger and The Mandibles, this article considers this history, examining the gendered, racialised and sexualised discursive practices that attend representations of gold along with the 'metallism' surrounding blockchain-based cryptocurrencies in the contemporary conjuncture. By claiming to represent non-negotiable certainty derived from technology/nature rather than social convention, the fantasy of fundamental value returns, together with related associations of essentialism and authenticity, but anchored in this new context in the technocratic authoritarianism of FinTech. This is part of the background for the 'new libertarianism' whose ascendency now overshadows the neoliberalism that has been the focus of critical attention for some decades
Commodification · Economics · Economy · Essentialism · Law and economics · Libertarianism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Gender Studies · Law
The New Lombard Street
Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
The Blockchain as a Narrative Technology
What was Bitcoin, what will it be? The techno-economic imaginaries of a new money technology
The Social Life of Money
On Not Being a Sign
A thousand plateaus
The Birth of Biopolitics
When perhaps the real problem is money itself
What Can Money do? Feminist Theory in Austere Times
Bitcoin and Potosí Silver
Bitcoin beyond ambivalence
Family Values
The Social Life of Bitcoin
How is Bitcoin Money
Sex in Public
Cryptocurrencies as market singularities
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |