Thinking with Uncertainty: Scaling Up and Down in the Cryptocurrency World
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Yogarajah, Yathukulan. 2023. Thinking with Uncertainty: Scaling Up and Down in the Cryptocurrency World. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
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Against a background of uncertainty, this thesis draws on an understanding of anthropology that disturbs the rushed neoliberal temporality, and looks for mushrooms (Bear, 2014, 2020; Tsing, 2017). It looks closely at the strategies and relations used by occupants of the cryptocurrency space to make habitable a highly volatile and uncertain world. My research participants occupy the heart of contemporary capitalism: in start-up spaces and banks, and also the peripheries: as multi-level marketing investors and 'noisy' retails traders (Preda, 2017). They are united in their engagement with a highly volatile market and uncertain space. They turn to practices of storytelling (Jackson, 2002); take to stages to scale themselves up and scale the world down (Hart, 2014; Tsing, 2012); 'cook money' (Carsten, 1989); form arborescent and rhizomatic networks (Strathern, 2017); and take chances in the face of 'wage slavery', in order to scale their knowledge of the cryptocurrency world.
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Thesis (Doctoral) |
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uncertainty, cryptocurrencies, money, enterprise, storytelling, networks, scams, chance |
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| Date: |
31 January 2023 |
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33129 |
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13 Feb 2023 11:24 |
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13 Feb 2023 15:00 |
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