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The Many and the One (Definition 1 – Point) The Many and the One (Definition 1 – Point)
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Double-Headed Arrow (Definition 23 – Parallel Straight Lines) Double-Headed Arrow (Definition 23 – Parallel Straight Lines)
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Indices Rise Up (Definition 5 – Surface) Indices Rise Up (Definition 5 – Surface)
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The Chain (Definition 3 – Segment) The Chain (Definition 3 – Segment)
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Breaking the Line. Or, Do We Really Need Buggy Programs? Breaking the Line. Or, Do We Really Need Buggy Programs?
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The Line’s End, between Anthropo-morphosis and Pulverisation The Line’s End, between Anthropo-morphosis and Pulverisation
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6 Adventures of a Line of Thought: Rhythmic Evolutions of Intelligent Machines in Post-Digital Culture
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Published:August 2020
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Abstract
This chapter offers a speculative reading of the concept of rhythm in relation to capital and in the context of financial technologies such as trading algorithms, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (the blockchain), which are treated through a reading of the posthumanist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Defined as the gait of difference escaping both chaos and order, rhythm is here defined as that which continuously changes direction along critical, although infinitesimal, differentiations. Departing from this definition, the chapter focuses on different financial milieus in an attempt to understand the way in which these milieus might said to be rhythmic, that is, more than mere metric repetition. Milieus are defined by Deleuze and Guattari as periodic repetitions of coded components. In this sense, they are not normally rhythmic, they are metric. However, milieus also pass into each other in the process of becoming, transcoding themselves and giving birth to a process of differentiation. Blockchain technology is a distributed database of economic transactions that works thanks to the p2p system, a public ledger that does not need any centralized authority to register and ratify the transactions. Using Deleuze and Guattari’s terminology, the Ethereum blockchain, for example, can be defined as a technological milieu: a set of periodic repetitions of one main component (the registered transaction). In order for this economy to become rhythmic in the way described above, transactions (the blocks) should act as ‘blocks of becoming’: they would have to pass between different milieus and accept elements of different codes. To explore this proposition further, the chapter takes as a case study the Economic Space Agency, a financial platform whose aim is to share production means and to involve heterogeneous financial operators.
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