"Dezentrale, offene Blockchain-Technologien verwalten auf protokologischer Ebene Transaktionen von Daten. Durch kryptographische Methoden lassen sich die Transaktionen der Daten identifizieren. Dies geschieht – wenn kein Softwareupdate erfolgt – ohne Eingriff von aussen. Deshalb werden Blockchains als souveräne Medientechnologien vorgestellt. Sie regieren sich selbst. Damit sind sie auf Kollisionskurs mit traditionellen Souveränitäten, die entscheiden dürfen, was der Fall ist. Zu beobachten ist deshalb das Auftreten einer generisch digitalen Souveränitätsform. Deren Konsensfindung über den Zustand ihres Regierungsbereichs wird analysiert. Decentralized, open blockchain technologies (...) manage transactions of data on a protocological level. Cryptographic methods can be used to identify data transactions. This happens—if no software update takes place—without external intervention. Blockchains are therefore presented as sovereign media technologies. They govern themselves. This puts them on a collision course with traditional sovereignties that are allowed to decide what is the case. The emergence of a generic digital form of sovereignty can therefore be observed. Their consensus on the state of their government will be analyzed.". (shrink)

The notion of »the problematic« has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic fascination with generalized management ideas and technocratic models of science. This book explores central scenes, conceptual elaborations, and practical affiliations of what historically has been called »the problem« or »the problematic«. By way of considering modes of problematization as modes of inhabitation, intervention, and transformation the contributions map its current conceptual-political uses as well (...) as onto-epistemological challenges. Thus, »problematization« is positioned as a critical concept that links, often in intricate ways, several currents from speculative philosophy to the formation of interdisciplinary fields. The »problematic«, as it turns out, has been the source of change in philosophy and the sciences all along. (shrink)