ECSA Berlin Office: POSTCAPITALIST ECONOMIC MEDIA
EXPRESSING DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIC NETWORKS
ECSA BERLIN OFFICE: LAUNCHING THE ECSA NETWORK
September 29 — October 3, 2022
Economic Space Agency team has been in work for a few weeks here in Berlin and we will now open the office. We invite you to join playing distributed economic networks into existence.
Our starting points: (1) The economy is a programmable space. It is catching up with the new substrate of high speed computer networks with high informational capacities, bandwidth and connectivity. They are elevating the economy into something that resembles an expressive medium. (2) As a medium, the economy is fundamentally a communication and writing system: an economic messaging protocol. (3) Understanding the economy this way–as a communication network on a programmable substrate–reveals our economic relationships to be networking protocols. (4) We believe economic networks are the new economic abstraction, a value-producing, value-sharing and value-expressing form of informationally mediated society. Economic networks will be for Web3 what social networks were for Web2, and “shared keyword” networks were for Web1. (5) The key to making them accessible is in their programmability. (6) Accessibility means ability to define value, what counts as liquidity, what as collateral. So not values just as ideas, stripped of power; here, values as new kinds of assets and collateral that can enter into circulation and change the outcome of events large and small. (7) This expressive power needs to be made accessible — programmable economy must be endlessly, ceaselessly made accessible to all, with equal functionality and equal rights of expression. That is why our economic networks need to become distributed.
At the office, among others: Akseli Virtanen, Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez, Jonathan Beller, Pekko Koskinen, Joel Mason, Roberto Soundy, Mikael Brygger, Matthew Slater, Tomaž Fleischman, Jakub Lanc, Pablo Ruano, Michele Inovino, Jesse Janssen, Lio Mondano, Marleena Halonen, Orion Reed, Aleksa Stojanović.
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY 29.9.2022: A LONG VOLATILITY SETTING
ECSA LABS presents:
Robin Hood Decentralized: A Setting For A Long Volatility Strategy
18:00–20:00 @Curve Labs Office, Engeldamm 64b, 10179 Berlin
(ECSA zoom for virtual participation)
FRIDAY 30.9.2022: AN ECONOMIC NETWORK
15:00–18:00 Launching the ECSA network
19:00–20:00 The ECSA Token is alive. The first pizza bought!
@MOOS Space, Moosdorfstraße 7–9, 12435 Berlin
SATURDAY 1.10.2022: AN ECONOMIC MEDIA
15:00–18:00 Economy as a communication medium. Economic expression. What do these mean?
@MOOS Space, Moosdorfstraße 7–9, 12435 Berlin
SUNDAY 2.10.2022: AN ECONOMIC PAPER
14:00–16:00 ECSA Economic paper release & publication plan
17:00–19:00 The Grammar of Economic Space Agency: ECSA Economic Paper reading group Session 1/Introduction (ECSA zoom for virtual participation)
@MOOS Space, Moosdorfstraße 7–9, 12435 Berlin
MONDAY 3.10.2022: A DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIC PROTOCOL
13:00–18:00 Distributed economic networking protocols. With Matt Slater (Credit Commons) and Tomaž Fleischman (Informal Systems)
@MOOS Space, Moosdorfstraße 7–9, 12435 Berlin
(ECSA zoom for virtual participation)
PREPATORY MATERIALS
ECSA Economic Paper: The Grammar of Economic Space Agency— Post-Capitalist Economic-Organizational Expression (Ch 1–2 & Preface for the reading group).
Dick Bryan & Akseli Virtanen: What is Cryptoeconomy: A Macroview
Dick Bryan: Cryptocurrencies as Unit of Account: Possibilities for a Postcapitalist, Distributed Mode of Measurement
Jorge Lopez: Economy as Re-Programmable Network Operating System
Tomaž Fleischman, Paolo Dini, Giuseppa Littera: Liquidity-Saving Through Obligation Clearing and Mutual Credit
Matthew Slater: Credit commons white paper
You can find many more resources and documentation in the ECSA Material Library
We would like to sincerely thank you our friends at Curve Labs, MOOS Space, Un:Hack, and SAVVY Contemporary. You rock.
