Bitcoin w perspektywie geologii mediów — koniec świata czy koniec kapitalizmu?

• Authors: Maria Lompe

Title variants

EN

Bitcoin and geology of media: The end of the world or the end of capitalism?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article deals with the relation between Nature and capitalism, using the example of bitcoin currency. Based on the Jussi Parikka geology of media and Jason W. Moore theory, analyzes the multiplicity of cryptocurrency entanglements in the capitalist system. Comprehending Earth as a medium and Nature as a historical mother that both constitutes and limits the capitalist system is based on the concept of anthropocene understood in a specific way. The enormous energy consumption of cryptocurrencies reveals the ideological background of the new technology, which reproduces the values carried by the era of late modernity.

Keywords

PL

kapitalizm; antropocen; bitcoin; geologia mediów; Natura; późna nowoczesność; kryptowaluta

EN

capitalism; anthropocene; bitcoin; geology of media; Nature; late modernity; cryptocurrency

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Prace Kulturoznawcze
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 173-183

Contributors

author

Maria Lompe

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski