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Against Digital Absolutism: Why Cypherpunkism Is Not Anti-State or Anti-Corporation

August 22, 2019

My illustration entitled: "The Shield Against Absolutism" - I raise a luminous shield between citizens and two corrupted manifestations of power: an all-seeing surveillance state and an exploitative corpora...

The Right Not to Be Measured: Biometric Surveillance and the Sovereign Person

June 29, 2019

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Closed Eye" — A giant camera lens closes like an eyelid as a citizen calmly raises a hand in refusal. Human-Sovereignty Transhumanism supports technologies that empower p...

The Cypherpunkist Test: Who Does the Technology Empower?

October 10, 2018

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cypherpunkist’s Litmus Test" - I place different technologies—AI, digital currency, social platforms, biometrics and brain–computer interfaces—into a luminous testing apparatu...

The Right to Exit in Digital Civilization

November 1, 2017

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Lifeboat from the Centralized Ark" - a gigantic corporate digital vessel begins transforming into a surveillance machine. Me, and other citizens escape aboard smaller decentra...

The Evolution of Sovereignty: From Information Privacy to Cognitive Freedom

October 10, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Four Gates of Freedom" - I walks through four monumental gates labelled DATA, IDENTITY, BODY and MIND. The final gate opens into a vast blue-and-gold horizon shaped like a hum...

NeuroChip: Developing a Stronger Brain-Computer Interface for Artificial Intelligence Breakthroughs

May 28, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

In my latest illustration, I sketched a future possibility of the functions of the neurochip (Brain-Computer Interface) with functionalities for consumers, to directly control home-electronic appliances, et...

The Architecture of Power: A Cypherpunkist Theory of Technology

June 22, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "Rebuilding the Architecture of Power" - I use a glowing cryptographic hammer to dismantle a centralized technological fortress. Around me, citizens rebuild its components into an ...

Equality After Enhancement: A Civic Charter for Enhanced and Unenhanced Persons

November 18, 2014

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Equal Future Bridge". Enhanced and unenhanced citizens meet at the centre of a bridge connecting two districts of a future city. Human enhancement raises an old political...

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