When we hear “the singularity is near” let us remember: the Plurality is (already) here. - Audrey Tang

Abstract

Poetic Technologies UG is a fantastic collective enterprise whose mission is to liberate the technical imagination from bureaucratic technologies. Poetic Technologies' core offerings include research and development in zero knowledge cryptography, monetary innovation and software supply-chain security via reproducible builds. In this website, we highlight each of our core offerings, the values underpinning them and the social and technical implications of our work.

Table Of Contents

About Us

According to the late David Graeber1, poetic technologies are “the use of rational and technical means to bring wild fantasies into reality”. Poetic Technologies in that sense are “as old as civilisation”: from the ancient pyramids build in Egypt and Mesoamerica to the moonshot races between the USA and the Soviet Union in the 20th century.

Poetic Technologies UG is a fantastic collective enterprise whose mission is to liberate the technical imagination from bureaucratic technologies.

Our values are about

Our Work

Technology

We see technology as a fundamental framework supporting societal structures, economies, and various social institutions. In the words of Murray Bookchin, “an organic mode of life deprived of its technological component would be as nonfunctional as a human being deprived of their skeleton”.

However, our current use of technology has resulted in significant ecological harm. It’s as if the skeleton has outgrown the body. Technology, particularly information technologies, resemble a monoculture where we use one type of technological substrate in order to do many things in life: leisure, work, sex, communication, money, etc. This has led to bureaucratisation of software and the enclosure and fragmentation of attention.

In order to reverse this trend and have an ecological use of technology that is structured for human scale, the poetic technologies we envision, are based on the principles of decentralisation, federation, self-sustainability and democracy.

Interested?

Write to us at hello@poeticte.ch with your needs and specific technical requirements.

Poetry (Applied Research)

Our research is dedicated to exploring and enhancing the resilience and equity of algorithms, confidential computation, and decentralized networks.

Our poetic research projects focus on translating complex theoretical concepts into practical applications that have a meaningful societal impact.

Publications

Here are links to some of our published works.

Our People

The Poets

The Poetic Technologies crew unites a dynamic mix of talents from science, arts, technology, and finance backgrounds, each bringing a wealth of experience and skills to the table. Meet our team:

The Fellow Poets

The Poetic Fellowship is designed to bring together creative minds and technical innovators to work towards our common goals. Our aim is to leverage the unique perspectives of Fellow Poets from diverse backgrounds to enhance our mission.

Current Fellow Poets

The Conspirators

We collaborate with several other awesome organisations and individuals, here are a few:

Contact

Write to us at hello@poeticte.ch

Visit our X/Twitter page here.

Here are our Imprint and Privacy Policy pages.

Footnotes

  1. Graeber, D. (2017, May 10). Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit. The Baffler. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit ↩︎

  2. Fleischman, T., Dini, P., & Littera, G. (2020). Liquidity-Saving through Obligation-Clearing and Mutual Credit: An Effective Monetary Innovation for SMEs in Times of Crisis. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 13(12), 295. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm13120295 ↩︎

  3. Dashyan, D., Kulkarni, A., Linares, J., & Srikanth, K. (2023). Circles Entropy – Weaving Privacy into Trust Networks. https://entropy.circles.coop/ ↩︎

  4. Poetic Technologies (2024). Poetic Intents: Seeding the next generation of TEEs. https://poeticte.ch/posts/poetic-intents.html↩︎

  5. Poetic Technologies (2024). Autonomous TEEs Manifesto. https://poeticte.ch/posts/autonomous-TEEs-manifesto.html↩︎