We have established a small, diverse Crypto humanities and social sciences peer review group, which also deals with broader topics in technology and the humanities. The group members have mostly chosen the third path of writing: rarely directly writing 2C products and projects; not directly writing 2VC industry research; but rather focusing on topics related to the overall industry, humanities, social sciences, and technological impact.
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Contents#
Zero: Networked Writing ✅ Lonely Writer 🚫
One: Cross-Pollination, Center Drawing Circles
Two: Peer Review Group Members and Previous Works
*For those familiar with Networked writing, you can skip to the third section
**Media friends are welcome to contact us for cooperation/recruitment
Cross-Pollination: Cross-pollination in trees usually refers to pollination between different clones or different species. Self-incompatible flowers and monoecious heterozygous tree species must be pollinated by cross-pollination to bear fruit normally.
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Zero: Networked Writing#
Traditionally, writing seems to be more like a "solo action" in climbing. After the ups and downs, a mountaineering report on words and language is produced, imprinting the knowledge landscape seen. The process of how it is written has always been close to a "mystery of knowledge production".
All works seem to strive for completeness and must go through a process of structural sealing. Even though there are indeed avant-garde writings that break through this "sealing process" and liberate the many voices locked in a single voice; overall, in today's easily accessible communication, there is still a scarcity of communication about the creative process. How far does a voice have to reach to touch the reader?
The medium that determines how we write has changed. After the long publishing process is eliminated, the "thin paper" between the author and the reader is also gone. This is the original vision of Networked Writing replacing the lonely writer and lonely reader.
The establishment of a relatively stable knowledge system is accompanied by the establishment of a community centered around this system. The formation of a good community requires history and a sufficient number of interactions and balances. As exploratory research in the humanities and social sciences of Crypto, which is an emerging field, is still in a state of flux, the boundaries can change at any time, and its future is longer than its history; it is difficult to find "colleagues" who can provide consensus opinions in a serious sense when writing here.
One: Cross-Pollination, Center Drawing Circles#
Without a community, there is no coordinate system. Individual voices are often fragile, difficult to be heard, and difficult to be recognized. Serious works often lack readers (especially careful readers), except for the attention and reputation of the institution they are in. In the information age, it is difficult to have other quality control methods to tell you "this is a good work worth reading" or conversely, "this is a long article with little information". Fixed standards have fixed problems (this is the work of the Desci field), but without measurement standards, there are likely to be more problems.
A coordinate system may be biased, but the biases of ten people are usually not farther than the bias of one person. The closer the reader is to the source of writing, the more they can participate in the writing process and the more willing they are to understand. With this as the center, we have drawn a small circle.
Toby Shorin, co-founder of Otherinter.net, one of the most successful research institutions in the Crypto humanities and social sciences field, has conducted a case study on "work peer review" and wrote the above article based on the case study.
We have established a small, diverse Crypto humanities and social sciences peer review group, which also deals with broader topics in technology and the humanities. The group members have mostly chosen the third path of writing: rarely directly writing 2C products and projects; not directly writing 2VC industry research; but rather focusing on topics related to the overall industry, humanities, social sciences, and technological impact.
Two: Peer Review Group Members and Previous Works#
(In order of appearance in the group avatar):
@Nechi
Nechi has shared community discussions related to returning to public life in Uncommons and is currently pursuing a master's degree. She previously studied Chinese at PKU and then switched to sociology. This work is related to her research during her master's degree and was made public after publication.
Work: Possibilities of Alterity in Postmodernity: Focusing on Its Motivation Mechanism
@Oliz
Oliz has a long-standing interest in the digital society, such as issues of digital governance and recent concerns about data ethics. Oliz is pursuing a master's degree at Georgetown University, and this article is from her Substack column, TechxSociety Thoughts.
Read the original article: https://oliz0808eth.substack.com/p/what-if-we-have-an-digital-agora
@B
B's latest article is about the Israel-Gaza war. B has a background in political science and philosophy from CUHK and LSE, and has long been writing and translating articles related to politics and international relations. Currently, B is applying for a PhD in a related field and also working for a think tank.
Read the original article: https://luluderivation.notion.site/20231009-fa1f8f96681d4e20b562a5baa7466d18
@Hedgehog & Django
Hedgehog and Django are members of the DAO research organization KuggaDAO. Hedgehog is studying PPE and philosophy and religious studies at Peking University Yuanpei College, and has written a series of articles related to DAO governance.
Read the original article (1): DAO as a "Digital City-State": A Comparative Perspective
Read the original article (2): From Technology to Politics: The Myth of Decentralization
@Peng Sun
Peng Sun's research during his master's degree is related to missionaries in China, and he later joined the top industry media Foresight News as an editor. He has written many widely read articles and is also engaged in research on the history of cypherpunks at "原语里弄".
Read the original article: "Dawn of Web3 and the New Birth of the 'Dark Continent' | Overview of the African Crypto Market" https://foresightnews.pro/article/detail/44957
@twone
Twone is a core contributor to Uncommons and GCC, and has studied political economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently participating as one of the authors in the writing of the Web3 Public Goods Report, which is over 40,000 words long. He is also an experienced game content creator and has experience in operating accounts with millions of subscribers in Web2.
Read the original article: "Paradise Disco: A Dreamlike Lightning Bubble"
@Rosetta
Rosetta is a continuous explorer in the field of technology and humanities, with a long-standing interest in political economy. She is a doctoral student in economic history at Tsinghua University and has written several papers or reports on ethnic nationalism and Asian politics and economics, both inside and outside academia. She is also a THUBA researcher.
@K
K has long been interested in DeSci and Refi topics and has worked as a researcher at the TTCSP think tank at the University of Pennsylvania and as a legal assistant at the blockchain SEC legislation department of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft. K is a core contributor to Uncommons and is currently working in the VC public works fund for Ethereum ecosystem public goods infrastructure.
Read the original article: "DeSci, Eternal Fallacy, and the History of Crypto Thought" https://pretty-longship-fa5.notion.site/DeSci-80ba8160dde1447e98f382da358309d5
@北辰
Beichen is a long-time blockchain media person and the founder of the "刺耳的 Whistle" crypto self-media. He has long been producing content related to the industry ecology. Recently, he has also been paying attention to compliance and RWA issues.
During the first internal testing phase, the ten members of the group all have backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences and are interested in and have works on various branches of Crypto and broader technological humanities. We hope to form a good feedback mechanism through mutual reading and giving opinions. In the English-speaking world, acknowledgments at the beginning or end have already become a tradition, and there is already a fairly dense network of acknowledgments and peer review in the Crypto research field. We hope that such acknowledgments and peer review networks can eventually form in the Chinese-speaking world as well. The establishment of the peer review group is just a very young step in this direction. The group also accepts submissions from outside and looks forward to your submissions.
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