#TVRCM #TheVeryRealCryptoMovement by @sms2sms, 22. März 2026

(ich schreibe langsamer als erwartet… bis dahin die playlist von WikiDienstag.ch vloggen­des schreiben)

The #social­work­er says:

  • “Show me your com­mu­nica­tive set­ting, and I’ll tell you what you want.”
  • “The dis­tinc­tion ((stage)audience) is not part of the solu­tion; it was part of the prob­lem.”
  • “Trust is not iden­ti­ty; it is ver­i­fi­able process.”

note­bookLM von google hat den tex­ten­twurf gele­sen und so besprochen: es gibt also noch viel zu tun ;-)))

coming soon:
Das ganze Dokument als PDF

work in progress
((( Ver­sion vom 25. März, 16:30h, work with­in a ten­den­cy )))
work in progress
((( Ver­sion vom 25. März, 16:30h, work with­in a ten­den­cy )))
work in progress
((( Ver­sion vom 25. März, 16:30h, work with­in a ten­den­cy )))

#TVRCM  #TheV­eryRe­al­Cryp­to­Move­ment
Pub­lished March 16./22., 2026 by Ste­fan M. Seydel/sms ;-)

Ver­sion: Orig­i­nal Text in Ger­man: dissent.is/TVRCM
sms@dissent.is | dfdu.org ag | social media: @sms2sms

Pro­pos­al for the writ­ing series “From Com­mons to NFTs
An expand­ed series ini­ti­at­ed by Shu Lea Cheang, Felix Stalder and Ewen Chardron­net
makery.info/en/category/from-commons-to-nft

Ste­fan M. Sey­del/sms ;-) works at the inter­sec­tion of art, tech­nol­o­gy and social infra­struc­ture. His projects move between media art, net­work the­o­ry and prac­ti­cal com­mons exper­i­ments. His work has been shown at the Roy­al Acad­e­my of Arts Lon­don, the Deutsches His­torisches Muse­um Berlin and the Cabaret Voltaire Zurich. He was a jury mem­ber for #NextSo­ci­ety at Ars Elec­tron­i­ca and was invit­ed to work at the Vilém Flusser Archive in Berlin. He is co-author of the two books “Die Form der Unruhe”, #dfdu (Junius Ver­lag, Ham­burg). His main prac­tice has been writ­ing in the net (@sms2sms — a han­dle Han­nah Arendt might have appre­ci­at­ed) since the ear­ly days of the inter­net — vlog­ging at WikiDienstag.ch and blog­ging at dissent.is.

#TheVeryRealCryptoMovement

The series “From Com­mons to NFTs” has so far brought togeth­er sev­en smart voic­es from art, the­o­ry, and cryp­to cul­ture. It exam­ines the trans­for­ma­tion of “dig­i­tal cul­ture” from com­mons-based forms toward tok­enized forms of own­er­ship.

After read­ing it, one thing above all stays with me: the debate moves with­in the space of objects, images, tokens, titles of own­er­ship, and mar­kets. That reminds me of impor­tant ele­ments of the cul­tur­al form of moder­ni­ty. A form toward which I feel as intense­ly repulsed as I learned from the Jew­ish arch-prophet Isa­iah in his “Zaw La Zaw” (Isa­iah 28:10). What inter­ests me is some­thing else entire­ly: not the object, but the infra­struc­ture.

And yet this is pre­cise­ly some­thing that can indeed be read out of, and tak­en from, the sev­en con­tri­bu­tions so far:

  • Com­mons are infra­struc­ture.
    NFTs are titles of own­er­ship.
  • Net cul­ture is abun­dance.
    NFTs enable scarci­ty.
  • Blockchain is infra­struc­ture.
    NFTs are mar­ket prod­ucts.
  • The art mar­ket tests tokens.
    Com­mons are rights of use.
  • The open ques­tion is not NFT.
    The open ques­tion is how free and open infra­struc­ture can be designed.

This is a stim­u­lat­ing and sug­ges­tive approach, and one I would like to build on…

(work with­in a ten­den­cy)

work in progress

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#TVRCM #TheVeryRealCryptoMovement

From Com­mons to NFTs“ ist eine (erweit­erte) Essayrei­he, ini­ti­iert von Shu Lea Cheang, Felix Stalder und Ewen Chardron­net. Angesichts der speku­la­tiv­en Blase (und ihres Platzens) rund um NFTs bringt die Rei­he den Begriff der Com­mons aus der Zeit um die Jahrtausendwende zurück, um über die Trans­for­ma­tion der kollek­tiv­en Vorstel­lungskraft und ihre divergieren­den Zukün­fte nachzu­denken und in sie einzu­greifen. Am let­zten Tag jedes Monats veröf­fentlicht Mak­ery einen neuen Beitrag dieser „chain essays“. Das ist der Vorschlag von Ste­fan M. Sey­del für diese Serie.

Inhaltsverze­ich­nis

  1. Was bish­er geschah
  2. “Lasst uns mit dem Anfang begin­nen” (H.U.Obrist)
    Wortk­lärun­gen: Dig­i­tal, Blockchain, Token, NFT, Smart Con­tract, Com­mons, Cryp­to 
  3. Fol­get der Spur
  4. Von den radikalen Kräften der Ref­or­ma­tion in Zürich
    zu den Cyber­weibern des Posthu­man­is­mus
  5. Krise als Chance: Der stets prekäre Wech­sel des dom­i­nan­ten Kom­mu­nika­tion­s­medi­um
  6. Die Form ist die Möglichkeit der Struk­tur. (TLP 2.033)
  7. Hyper­link was the Mes­sage: Blockchain is the Infra­struc­ture
  8. #Com­mons reloaded: adopt or die
  9. Case: Kartof­feln & Blockchain
  10. Pitch: DER WEG NACH OBEN
  11. Glos­sar
  12. Lit­er­atur und Links

Setting, Cluster & Resonanz

Das ganze Doku­ment als PDF (work with­in a ten­den­cy)

(7) The Next Organization Will Not Be Organized. #TNOWNBO

Blurb­ing @Dad­dyD | DIE FORM DER UNRUHE #dfdu Junius-Ver­lag Ham­burg | pdf: Band 1, 2009 | Band 2, 2010 | Über­sicht: Res­o­nanz in Massen lei­t­en­den Medi­en seit 1999