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Non-Fungible Tokens: Multidisciplinary Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Non-Fungible Tokens Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By Usman W. Chohan Copyright 2024
214 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) have blossomed into an area of immense cultural, investment, and academic interest, and this groundswell of fascination with non-fungible digital tokenization has been accompanied by a variety of attitudes towards their function, purpose, and potential. Some advocates perceive NFTs to be revolutionary in character, reshaping notions of the construction and preservation... Read more

1. Introduction: Non-fungible tokens: Blockchain, scarcity, and value Part I: The Essentials of NFTs 2. NFTs and their Core Technologies 3. A Thematic History of NFTs 4. Discoveries from the NFT market Part II: The Value of NFTs 5. NFT Communities as Societies of Producers 6. Are NFTs sustainable? An ESG perspective 7.  A Look Beyond Static NFTs 8. Do Smart Contracts Dream of Bored Apes?: On The Uniqueness of the NFT Subculture Part III: The Disvalue of NFTs 9. The Leisures of Blockchains: Exploratory Analysis 10. The Fetishizing Language Behind the NFT Craze: A Semiotic-cum-semantic Critique 11. Racial capitalism, Platform Capitalism, and NFTs 12. NFTs and the Spectacle of Accumulation 13. Conclusion: Some Precepts of the Digital Economy

Biography

Usman W. Chohan, Ph.D., is an international economist and academic who serves as Advisor on Economic Affairs and National Development at the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), one of Pakistan’s premier research-based think tanks, where he was also a founding director.

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