19th February 2019, 10:00 – 17:30Maison Suger, 16 -18 Rue Suger – 75006 Paris
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This one-day workshop is intended to
re-address the issues related to the Blockchain in the current context
of the Anthropocene. Issues such as ecological impact, entropy in the
field of information, destruction of collective institutions, need to be
considered in a renewed concept of locality (Stiegler) and commons
(Bauwens).
Certification is a key issue in
information systems but is also raising important epistemological
questions since any knowledge needs to be confronted with the question
of truth or more precisely of different regimes of veridiction in
Foucault’s sense. This philosophical question, the ‘truth’ of the
digital, will be analyzed in the context of decentralized certification,
where there is no top-down or natural concept of certification but a
dynamic elaboration of it. In the context of such ‘decentralization of
proofs’, the workshop will analyze the tradeoffs between transparency
and certification at the micro-level of a blockchain or at the upper
level of decentralized education and knowledge production.
Blockchain will also be considered in the
context of “Real Smart Cities” where territories are considered as
local open systems in a contributory economy. Blockchain systems are
raising important questions that will be confronted to the context of
the Plaine Commune territory (North of Paris), in an attempt to evaluate
capacitative technological solutions with and for citizens. How should
the global dimension of Internet communication be combined with the
needs of local communities within the context of open communication
systems in a way that provides clear rules for decision making and
traceability of exchanges? Do decentralized systems show evidence of a
new articulation between top-down and bottom-up knowledge production
that could open the way to a new democratic context? How can
decentralized systems help to build a new contributory economy for the
benefit of local communities and contributory democracies, for example,
by initiating debate concerning the definition of economic value and the
context of the future of work in the age of a generalized automation of
jobs and a massive decrease of employment.
Programme: Reconsidering the Blockchain
10h00 – 12h00 / Michel Bauwens, Peer-to-Peer foundation
12h00 – 12h15 / Skype Intervention
12h15 – 13h00 / Discussion with Bernard Stiegler, IRI
Design and political issues
14h30 – 15h00 / Guido Boella, Un. Of Torino
15h00 – 15h30 / Diego Di Caro, Un. Of Torino
15h30 – 16h00 / Vincenzo Giorgino, Un. of Torino
16h00 – 16h15 / Skype Intervention
16h15 – 17h00 / Discussion with Michel Bauwens
Debates will be moderated by Armen Khatchatourov, Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
Projects of
particular interest for the P2P foundations that will be discussed
during the seminar are available at the following link: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Cryptoledger_Applications#Projects_of_Particular_Interest_to_the_P2P_Foundation
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