<nettime> 3 or 4 good links on NFTs

["Ted Byfield" <tedbyfield@gmail.com>]

NFTs don't strike me as intrinsically interesting, but the seeming 
inability of conventional leftish/academic to address them *is* 
interesting. I'd be hard-pressed to think of another time when it seemed 
so clear that the force of criticism has been *to categorize* — that 
is, to dispense with the rough edges of specificity in order file 
something away as quickly as possible and reaffirm the big picture. 
That's not without its benefits; for example, it can spin off all kinds 
of erudition. But it shouldn't be hard to do all that *and also* 
acknowledge that some curious new spaces might be opening up. It seems 
to me that that victory of more or less disciplinary self-regard over 
the raw potential of things is pretty much a case study in 
performativity. And, like a lot of performativity these days, it feels 
less than promising.

Here are three articles on the subject that I thought were worth the 
time. Just retweeting, not endorsing, as they say. But when a supermodel 
is doing tactical media that's far more compelling than all of nettime 
combined, and writing about it in ways that radiate relevance to issues 
that are (let's say) less 'pale, male, and stale,' it's time for a 
rethink.

Links below, obv.

Cheers,
Ted
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(1) How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily 
Ratajkowski’s new NFT? Ratajkowski trolls an art troll

	Jacob Kastrenakes
	Apr 24, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/24/22399790/emily-ratajkowski-nft-christies-copyright-nightmare-richard-prince

	👉🏼 note the link to her essay "Buying Myself Back When does a 
model own her own image?" (Sept. 15, 2020)

		https://www.thecut.com/article/emily-ratajkowski-owning-my-image-essay.html

(2) The Downward Spiral: Popular Things
	Dean Kissick
	(n.d.)

https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/articles/downward-spiral-popular-things-dean-kissick

(3) The One Redeeming Quality of NFTs Might Not Even Exist
	Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman
	April 14, 2021

https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/nfts-digital-art-authenticity-problem.html

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