Writer · Researcher · Bitcoiner
The Culture Protocol:
Re-reading the Modern Mind through Bitcoin
A thirty-chapter work examining Bitcoin through the frameworks of cultural theory — Benjamin, Derrida, Foucault, and others.
Currently in development.
Bitcoin as cultural phenomenon.
Essays on what decentralized money means for how we preserve and understand value.
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Payment Required. A Scenario Deconstruction from the Year 2036
What happens when a house no longer needs an institution to function? A timber frame inside a greenhouse, heated by a Bitcoin miner, managed by an AI that pays for its own intelligence with the tokens the miner earns. This essay tests the idea layer by layer, from waste heat economics to bearer tokens to community mints, and asks where the architecture holds and where it breaks.
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What Does AI Remember? Cultural Memory in the Age of Large Language Models
Large language models produce cultural knowledge without the institutions that cultural memory theory considers essential: no community that authorizes them, no specialists who maintain the record. Using Jan and Aleida Assmann's analytical categories (canon, archive, the floating gap, active and passive forgetting), this essay asks what happens when a medium remembers statistically. The answer involves a new form of cultural forgetting that no one intended and no existing framework captures.
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The Avant-Garde and Bitcoin: Decentralized Money Didn’t Come From Nowhere
Bitcoin did not emerge in isolation. Its logic — consensus over authority, rules over rulers, time as structure — belongs to a century of experiments once carried out in the avant-garde. Bitcoin wasn’t an accident of code but a century-long attempt to imagine systems beyond authority.
Before Bitcoin, over a decade of research across collections and institutions in Germany and Austria.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna
Curatorial and advisory work. Bitcoin as cultural object within an institutional context.
Göttingen State and University Library
Digitization and documentation of large archival holdings. Over 15,000 objects across multiple collections. Editorial coordination across archives, IT, and external partners.
Fellowships
Central Institute for Art History, Munich. Albertina Museum & University of Vienna. Centre for Cultural Studies, Lübeck.