Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 07 pm

Jaya Klara Brekke (writer and theorist, London) discusses the politics and ethics of “smart contracts”-legal agreements written directly into source-code housed on networked servers and implemented through a distributed ledger platform (i.e. blockchain). Brekke questions how this technology, in rendering a legal agreement as a computerized transaction protocol, can substantiate claims that decentralization, neutrality, and immutability are features guaranteed by the protocol alone.
(Lecture in English)

Jaya Klara Brekke’s lecture is presented in collaboration with the Sommerakademie Paul Klee. With gratitude to Tirdad Zolghadr (Director Sommerakademie Paul Klee) the Sommerakademie Paul Klee 2017-19 Fellows.

in the context of:
Contractual Situations We Live By