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The Corruption of Academia: How Highly Educated Professionals Fail Society
This is not an argument against education—but against its hollowing out. Against the idea that credentials equal credibility. Against the polite and polished consensus that keeps us circling the same failing paradigms.
The Way We Fund Is Broken
Why centralized philanthropy is failing us — and how decentralized design is building the future of funding from the ground up.
Decentralizing Art Funding: How Blockchain Creates Transparent Ecosystems
The future of art funding doesn’t lie in replicating old systems with new tools – it lies in reimagining the entire framework.
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The Obsession with Profit & the Dark Side of Technological Innovation
The tech world is obsessed with profit and that obsession is showing symptoms of an unsettling pattern, the exploitation of human vulnerability disguised as technological innovation and progress. This article presents three compelling examples: the militarization of AI, the creeping influence of centralised finance on decentralised finance, and the rise of unemployment-tech. Together they illustrate […]
Designing a Regenerative Cultural Economy
“When values-aligned actors begin to acquire digital works from the Art Stoke Commons ecosystem, they don’t just support individual artists – they validate a new logic of cultural production. Each successful Hive becomes a proof-of-concept. Each replication, a new node in a growing network of islands of coherence. If it works in South Africa where the wounds of inequality and the hunger for cultural healing are deep, it can serve as a blueprint for global cultural resurgence in the digital age.”
Who bought Beeple’s NFT artwork “Everydays” ($69.3m)?
The buyer of Beeple’s NFT artwork “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” was Vignesh Sundaresan, a cryptocurrency investor and the founder of the Metapurse NFT project. The artwork was purchased for $69.3 million at Christie’s in March 2021, making it the most expensive single non-fungible token (NFT) ever sold. Sundaresan bought the artwork under his pseudonym […]
