# Platformization: platform organizational form eating the world we can do better

Source: https://theblockchainsocialist.com/platformization-the-platform-organizational-form-is-eating-the-world-and-we-can-do-better
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Submitted by misha on 2024-04-14 UTC, 1 upvote, 0 comments

## Summary

This is a podcast interview in which Gianmarco Cristofari and the host, the author of Blockchain Radicals, interview each other about platforms, crypto and the left. The conversation covers platforms as markets within markets, Cristofari's book The Politics of Platformization, and the socialist history of cybernetics. Cristofari also read the host's book during his stay and offered thoughts on the relations and differences between platforms and protocols in web3. The episode was produced for the Institute for Network Cultures, and the host's book Blockchain Radicals is published by Repeater Books.

## Article

My friend and researcher of the politics of tech platforms, Gianmarco Cristofari recently had an extended in my apartment and so we thought it’d be a great opportunity to interview each other. He interviewed me here for the Institute for Network Cultures to talk about my book and the left’s relationship with crypto.

We spoke about how platforms are markets within markets, his book The Politics of Platformization, and the socialist history of cybernetics. While he stayed at my place he also read my book and gave some thoughts on the relations and differences between platforms and protocols in web3. We also spoke about his own reflections on his experiences being active in groups like Extinction Rebellion and their relationship with technology.

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