We Need More Sociologists in the Blockchain Space!

For this week's interview I spoke with Kris Jones (@KrisJ_Official) who wrote his Masters thesis in 2018 titled "Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain” as well as another article titled "Blockchain in or as governance? Evolutions in experimentation, social impacts, and prefigurative practice in the blockchain and DAO space." He also has a Medium profile where he expands on different ideas he wrote about in his thesis.

During the interview we talk about what got him interested in blockchain from a sociological point of view, the major ideological camps in the space, and how he was influenced by some of Marx's work for writing his thesis. He also gave us a run down of some of the projects he's working on including Commons Stack, the Token Engineering Commons, Don't Buy Meme, and Keep Network.

Note that this was an especially long interview, so next week I will not be publishing a podcast episode to give myself some time to a few other things I've been needing to do.

Sources
Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain — an Introduction
Blockchain and the Future of Work by Kris Jones
Prefigurative Practice, Politics, and the State  by Kris Jones
My interview with Jeff Emmett from Commons Stack

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