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Blockchain Technology and the Endangered Species Called Humans

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The following lines aim at two goals: firstly, connecting the three blind spots (language, territory and the body) that Katrin Becker's article has identified in the analysis of society promoted by advocates of blockchain technology; secondly, reflecting on the possible hybridization between classical and digital forms of legal procedures. What we are witnessing is a transfer of legality from a spatial and linguistic order to a non-spatial, non-linguistic one which is based on out-of-space lines of written code. The interpretation of what space means for justice becomes therefore a crucial social stake in the possible hybridization of classical and digital procedures.

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  1. ‘I call any geometrical figure, or group of points, “chiral”, and say that it has chirality if its image in a plane mirror, ideally realized, cannot be brought to coincide with itself.’.

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Lassègue, J. Blockchain Technology and the Endangered Species Called Humans. Law Critique 33, 141–147 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-021-09316-9

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