Radical Friends - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts - Furtherfield

How do fragments of affinity and interest become "socially scalable"?

Decentralized networks are fields — social arenas of symbolic and material production in which interested actors compete and cooperate over network-specific resources as they provision and consume the products and services available in the network.

This utterly decentralized and amorphous force increasingly self-organizes to provide its own news, entertainment, and services.

What we believe to be most promising about emerging spaces like Trust is their potential to grow into collectively-owned social and cultural institutions built on decentralised infrastructure: democratically governed manifestations of collective interest ranging from political aims to fandoms, contributed to and run by their members.

DAOs present an alternative organizational structure that tries to align incentives for the long-term among a variety of stakeholders. The relationship changes from creator and consumer to everyone as co-creators. Creative organizations begin to look more like flat peer-to-peer networks as opposed to hierarchies.