White Papers on Dissent explores blockchain technology beyond its economic narratives and technical promises, framing it as a social device to rehearse post-capitalist imaginaries. Far from being a neutral infrastructure, blockchain has become a contested terrain where governance, value, and cooperation are redefined. Barbara Cueto moves beyond market-driven interpretations to explain how blockchain can function as a tool for radical imagination: a structure that, despite its entanglements with finance, holds the potential to support alternative forms of social organisation.

The book introduces Critical Blockchain Art as an artistic practice that builds on the legacy of socially engaged art and institutional critique, while opening new spaces for testing alternative modes of governance and rethinking the infrastructures that shape collective life. It appropriates blockchain as both a conceptual framework and a technical infrastructure for political experimentation. Rather than reproducing speculative markets or technological spectacle, these projects engage with the social and material conditions of blockchain to question how value is produced, how cooperation is organised, and how dissent can be enacted.

The presentation is followed by a conversation with terra0, who explore how ecosystems can become economic agents and engages in questions of collective ownership. Moderated by Chris Dake-Outhet.

Copies of the publication will be available for sale at the event ⟢