The Philosophers DAO is very glad of launching this bounty. NFT and Art worlds are full of philosophy, thus many philosophical questions should be dealt by artists in their path to development. In order to improve that philosophical growth in our community, we are launching a bounty for philosophers to write about Art, Culture, Philosophy, and/or Technology.
We are going to pay 100 usd in near or dai (in the best convenience of the dao and near value will be measure according to the exchange rate we receive from near) for each of 4 philosophers for their papers (up to 1500 words) on the specified subjects. The text must be completely original, not published everywhere, and without any copyright issue, and sent in PDF format. We are going to mint this paper as NFT, with equally splitted revenue and royalties between the author and the DAO, so the author must also provided the first page of the paper as jpeg or png, in order for us to use as a cover image for the NFT. We are going to send 5 NFTs to the author as a gift and list the rest, keeping one in the DAO’s wallet, for historical purposes.
We will close this bounty July 21th, 2022, when The Philosophers DAO is going to choose the 4 best papers to receive. Please, submit your abstract here, as a comment, together with your name, and near wallet. The chosen papers must be written and received by the DAO here as a comment up to July 31st.
Thank you all for participating.
Let’s bring philosophy to the blockchain and make some NFTs!
Yes! This is a wondeful idea! On Metaverse DAO, we are talking to another dao, which is proposing to make a physical version of near metaverse magazine (i think it is publisher dao or near x publisher; it is Beetle Juice who is talking to them). So on Philosophers DAO we can learn with the experience of metaverse dao with the printed magazine, and do the same, if it works well. As @jsc2022.near is an editor, who can ask for isbn numbers for books, we want to publish this material throug Near Alexandria Library on metaverse and then printed too!
I will be happy to author an essay on the Phenomenology of Art as framework for thinking about the experience of viewing artworks on NFT platforms (e.g., Paras, OpenSea, The Auction, UniqArt, etc.). Phenomenology is a 19th, 20th, and now 21st century school of Philosophy that begins from curiosity and analysis of concrete, lived human experience. The question I would like to entertain is how is our experience of Art shaped, limited, and opened up when viewing art on (and also making art for) these NFT platforms? What changes when we move the primary location of art from physical gallery or museum to online gallery or platform? How do digital NFT art works add new elements to the aesthetic experience? The piece will be exploratory, meant to pose questions and open conversations framed through a phenomenological lens.
@Alfonsotech got her Philosophy Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2002, taught Philosophy for ten years, and then transitioned to a new career in web dev and education. She has many interests in the arts (and studied Photography in the M.F.A. program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA) and is an avid NFT collector and creator on the various NEAR platforms. Her artist nom de plume is calcamonia.
Envisioning today’s world without technology would be a place without growth and void of changes. Discovering technological developments was a proof that humans are not only meant to live for survival but also to aspire for greatness. Undeniably, technology entails human being in every aspect of our lives, producing impacts that are to be seen and felt to last. It was truly the best if not the greatest gift that humans had in their entire existence. But as technology takes part on todays’ society of millennial generation, does it help them or does it trammel?
In this paper, the author specifically highlighted the impact of technology on millennial generations, also describing the future that wait for a generation moulded by skyrocketing technological advancements and innovations. It explores how the developmental effects of technology change todays’ generation positively and negatively. It also discusses some studies found that involves the development of some important areas for persons’ holistic growth. This paper wanted to show how technology guides everyone towards growth while also being aware of what impedes millennial from taking advantage of its benefits.
Perceptively, it would be a great help to understand technology as part of present generation. Different walks of life would be able to understand how unique the generation of today ----- to harness the myriad of positive changes and embrace the downsides brought by the easiness of technological developments.
Literary art and human rights: marginal voices in focus.
In this paper I propose to discuss the relationship between Literature and its function in the light of human rights, for that it is necessary to reflect on the function of literary art, without losing sight of the time and space in which it is produced. The chosen corpus is the marginal expressions of contemporary Brazilian Literature, with emphasis on the poetic expression of SLAM, putting into perspective the representation of social tensions in the aesthetic language of subjects who were relegated to the margins not only in the social field, but also in the literary. The focus on SLAM is justified because it is a poetic movement of peripheral urban subjects who occupy the center of large Brazilian cities to declaim authorial poetry with social themes, which is consolidated when it uses the virtual field to disseminate and rectify its literary premises, in these territories the subaltern makes himself heard. Therefore, it is interesting to broaden the discussion of how human rights reverberate aesthetically in the poetic language of SLAM and, therefore, in the role of Literature.
