(mis)adventures in governance
09-15, 18:30–18:55 (Europe/Berlin), Magazin - Main Stage

Eyewitness Reports from a Decade-Long Unaligned Bystander


In this presentation, I will draw upon ten years of interdisciplinary research into the social formations around protocol networks.

Wassim Z. Alsindi PhDWassim is the founder and creative director of the 0x Salon, which conducts experiments in post-disciplinary collective knowledge practices. A veteran of the timechain, Wassim specialises in conceptual design and philosophy of peer-to-peer systems, on which he writes, speaks, teaches, and consults. He has an editorial column at the MIT Computational Law Report, and he co-founded MIT’s Cryptoeconomic Systems journal and conference series. Wassim has curated arts festivals, led a sculptural engineering laboratory and published experimental music, satirical theatre, poetry, and speculative scripture. Wassim holds a Ph.D. in ultrafast supramolecular photophysics from the University of Nottingham.