Some pig! Exchanging NFTs for the perspective of regeneration

IF 1.5 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropology Today Pub Date : 2023-07-31 DOI:10.1111/1467-8322.12826
Bill Maurer
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There are a thousand more silly ideas for every utopian blockchain project to heal the planet, foster financial justice, transform cultural production or democratize practically anything and everything. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are one of them. The funny thing is that the more you pick at them, the more they harmonize with certain longstanding anthropological arguments. Non-fungibility lurks in the anthropological imagination of non-capitalist economies. This article uses the common law of fungibility to explore the elevation of the very idea of non-fungibility presumed in many NFTs. This idea might have more in common with saints’ incorruptible flesh or the Crown Jewels than the standard fictions of capitalist finance. They cut social ties by insisting on their singularity and immutability. In doing so, they crowd out other blockchain conversations about regeneration and ways to reckon the debts we owe any number of possible futures.

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一些猪!从再生的角度交换nft
每个乌托邦式的区块链项目都有一千个愚蠢的想法来治愈地球,促进金融正义,改变文化生产或使几乎所有事物民主化。不可替代令牌(nft)就是其中之一。有趣的是,你越是挑剔它们,它们就越符合某些长期存在的人类学观点。非可替代性潜藏在非资本主义经济的人类学想象中。本文使用可互换性的共同法则来探索许多nft中假定的不可互换性概念的提升。比起资本主义金融的标准虚构,这种想法可能更类似于圣徒不朽坏的肉体或皇冠上的珠宝。他们通过坚持自己的独特性和不变性来切断社会联系。在这样做的过程中,他们排挤了其他关于再生的区块链对话,以及如何计算我们欠任何可能的未来的债务。
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期刊介绍: Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines. Anthropology Today encourages submissions on a wide range of topics, consistent with these aims. Anthropology Today is an international journal both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.
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