Further reading

Nonterritorial builds on decades of scholarship across blockchain technology, art economics, philosophy of technology, and institutional critique. This page provides key references for those seeking deeper engagement with the intellectual foundations of the project.


Blockchain Technology & Distributed Systems

  • Buterin, V. (2014). "A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform.Ethereum Whitepaper.

  • Nakamoto, S. (2008). "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.

  • Szabo, N. (1996). "Smart Contracts: Building Blocks for Digital Markets.

  • Wood, G. (2014). "Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger." Ethereum Yellow Paper.


Art Economics & Market Structure

  • Abbing, H. (2002). Why Are Artists Poor? The Exceptional Economy of the Arts. Amsterdam University Press.

  • Caves, R. E. (2000). Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce. Harvard University Press.

  • McAndrew, C. (2024). The Art Market 2024. Art Basel & UBS.

  • Rosen, S. (1981). "The Economics of Superstars." American Economic Review, 71(5), 845-858.

  • TEFAF. (2024). TEFAF Art Market Report 2024.

  • Thornton, S. (2008). Seven Days in the Art World. W.W. Norton & Company.

  • Velthuis, O. (2005). Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art. Princeton University Press.


Philosophy of Technology & Individuation

  • Simondon, G. (1958). Du mode d'existence des objets techniques. Aubier. [English translation: On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, Univocal, 2017.]

  • Simondon, G. (2005). L'Invention Dans Les Techniques: Cours et Conférences. Seuil.

  • Stiegler, B. (1998). Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus. Stanford University Press.

  • Combes, M. (2013). Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual. MIT Press.


Atmospheres, Space & Experience

  • Böhme, G. (1993). "Atmosphere as the Fundamental Concept of a New Aesthetics." Thesis Eleven, 36(1), 113-126.

  • Böhme, G. (2017). The Aesthetics of Atmospheres. Routledge.

  • Schmitz, H. (2019). New Phenomenology: A Brief Introduction. Mimesis International.

  • Griffero, T. (2014). Atmospheres: Aesthetics of Emotional Spaces. Routledge.


Art Theory & Institutional Critique

  • Wright, S. (2013). Toward a Lexicon of Usership. Van Abbemuseum.

  • Glissant, É. (1997). Poetics of Relation. University of Michigan Press.

  • Haacke, H., & Alberro, A. (2016). Hans Haacke: All Connected. Prestel.

  • Bishop, C. (2012). Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. Verso.

  • Fraser, A. (2005). "From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique." Artforum, 44(1), 278-283.


Moving Image & Exhibition Practice

  • Uroskie, A. V. (2014). Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art. University of Chicago Press.

  • Mondloch, K. (2010). Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art. University of Minnesota Press.

  • Balsom, E. (2013). Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art. Amsterdam University Press.


NFT Markets & Digital Art Economics

  • NonFungible.com. (2024). "NFT Market Report 2024."

  • Franceschet, M., et al. (2021). "Crypto Art: A Decentralized View." Leonardo, 54(4), 402-405.

  • Zeilinger, M. (2018). "Digital Art as 'Monetised Graphics': Enforcing Intellectual Property on the Blockchain." Philosophy & Technology, 31(1), 15-41.


DAO Governance & Decentralized Organizations

  • Buterin, V. (2017). "Notes on Blockchain Governance."

  • Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press.

  • Rozas, D., et al. (2021). "Analysis of the Potentials of Blockchain for the Governance of Global Digital Commons." Frontiers in Blockchain, 4.


Cultural Infrastructure & Commons

  • Hess, C., & Ostrom, E. (2007). Understanding Knowledge as a Commons. MIT Press.

  • Benkler, Y. (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press.

  • Lessig, L. (2004). Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin.


Further Resources

Technical Documentation

Art Market Data

Cultural Policy

  • UNESCO Culture Conventions

  • European Commission Creative Europe Reports

  • Arts Council England Research


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