The presentation explores the global exchange of images of architectural projects linked to cryptocurrency speculation, designed to locate a range of utopian and libertarian projects affectively and geographically within a global narrative economy. Images of Patrick Schumacher’s navigable design for the micronation ‘Liberland’ – a free territory in a ‘no-man’s land’ between the borders of Croatia and Serbia – and Ecuador’s ‘Bitcoin City’ illustrate the hyperstitional currency of the networked architectural image – not only a representation of space but of its very possibility, paradoxically pitching financial innovation as a guarantee of the continuity of established means of spatial reproduction.
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