“Most NFT art is apolitical as well as ahistorical. Sure, there’s a vague sense of the People’s Revolution, as though we are all in one of those Chinese communist posters marching off to a brighter future.
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When the first generation of net art was political, by contrast, it took the fight to the economic drivers of global capital, both attacking its growing commercialization (RTMark, Toywar) and offering alternatives that might provide a more utopian Internet (AgoraXchange).”