Debt Busting Community Bank

By Max Dovey, April 4, 2018

During the past fortnight an incredible project has been taking place in Walthamstow in North London, Hoe Street Central Bank is a community banking project that combines direct action, activism and members of the local community to address the debt crisis. The project, initiated by artists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell seeks to eradicate £100,000,000 [...]

Who said the left can’t meme?

By Max Dovey, June 30, 2017

From Tactical Voting to Tinder bots – Technologists Changing UK Politics On the evening of 22nd June Newspeak house, a well needed community space for political technologists, hosted an ‘Election Tech Debrief’ where anyone could present what they had been working on for the UK General Election on June 8th. The surprise election, whilst catching [...]

Why I became a paying labour party member (again)

By Max Dovey, March 17, 2017

I have joined the Labour party. I have joined the labour party for a few reasons – one of them is that I am one of 900,000 uk nationals living abroad who face uncertainty in their international status when leaving the E.U. The labour international consistency has 2,400 members and half of them are based [...]

Defending more than Serendipity

By Max Dovey, March 13, 2017

Defending more than Serendipity What is serendipity? Notoriously difficult to translate1, it is described as a trivial encounter, a pleasing coincidence, or a moment or encounter that was unplanned and occurred without intentionally looking for it. For Olma there appears to be much more at stake than a charming French accident. In the book ‘In [...]

Inventing the future

By Max Dovey, March 7, 2017

a review of ‘Inventing the future: Postcapitalism and a world without work’ by Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams book ‘Inventing The Future’ envisions a radical utopia where machines and automation liberate humanity from the labour of work and capitalist structure. They attempt to galvanize left-wing or socialist ideals with futurist [...]

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By Max Dovey, February 27, 2017

“The contract is the code, it’s unstoppable code, it’s unbreakable, it’s self-executing and autonomous — right up until everything goes wrong.” Patrick Murck, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center Proof of Work, the term used to describe a method of validating transactions on the blockchain, is one of the most popular protocols [...]

Performing Protocol

By Max Dovey, February 27, 2017

This research journal will be a place to further develop counter concepts and strategies for the technological avant garde. For artists, activists, researchers, designers & academics interested in the potential of technology to mobilize a collective emancipatory politics. Proof of work will present alternative digital culture(s) that operate amongst the vast landscape of vaper-ware accentuated [...]

Proof of Work, a blog by Max Dovey

By Leonieke van Dipten, February 20, 2017

‘The contract is the code, it’s unstoppable code, it’s unbreakable, it’s self-executing and autonomous — right up until everything goes wrong.’ – Patrick Murck, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center Proof of Work, the term used to describe a method of validating transactions on the blockchain, is one of the most popular [...]