title: The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism (Forerunners: Ideas First)
author:  David Golumbia 
description: <DIV><P>&quot;Golumbia, in his small but important way, is helping wake us to the falsity of our perceived neutrality.&quot;&mdash;<I>One Flew East</I></P><P>&quot;This book is a very readable and valuable monograph which combines sound historical research with insightful analysis. All concerned citizens should read this book, which is an essential resource for understanding the true stakes of current technological hyperbole.&quot;&mdash;<I>Newsclick</I></P><P>&quot;Golumbia a le m&eacute;rite de s&rsquo;attaquer &agrave; des id&eacute;es qui ne sont pas suffisamment remises en question dans les communaut&eacute;s de la cryptomonnaie et des technologies de cha&icirc;nes concert&eacute;es. J&rsquo;en recommande fortement la lecture &agrave; quiconque s&rsquo;interroge sur les impacts de ces technologies sur nos soci&eacute;t&eacute;s.&quot;&mdash;<I>D&rsquo;un bloc &agrave; l&rsquo;autre</I></P></DIV>
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  Forerunners: Ideas First from the University of Minnesota Press
  
  
  Original e-works to spark new scholarship
  
  
  FORERUNNERS IS A thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works.
  Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly
  work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal
  articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature
  publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in
  scholarship.
  
  
  Ian Bogost
  
  
  The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple
  
  
  Andrew Culp
  
  
  Dark Deleuze
  
  
  Grant Farred
  
  
  Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
  
  
  David Golumbia
  
  
  The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
  
  
  Gary Hall
  
  
  The Uberfication of the University
  
  
  John Hartigan
  
  
  Aesop’s Anthropology: A Multispecies Approach
  
  
  Mark Jarzombek
  
  
  Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age
  
  
  Nicholas A. Knouf
  
  
  How Noise Matters to Finan