The Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers

Decomposed, Not Abolished: The Archon of a Rule-Based Archive

In one influential philosophical account of the archive, there is no archive without an archon — a guardian who keeps, interprets, and excludes — and no archive without an outside, a place of consignation distinct from what it holds. This article reads that account against a rule...

Price Without Negotiation: The Rule as a Limit Case for the Sociology of Valuation

The sociology of valuation has shown that markets for singular goods cannot determine quality as ordinary-goods markets do. Because a singularity's qualities are plural and incommensurable, such markets rely on judgment devices that guide buyers (Karpik 2010), pricing rituals tha...

Price Without Negotiation: The Rule as a Limit Case for the Sociology of Valuation

The sociology of valuation has shown that markets for singular goods cannot determine quality as ordinary-goods markets do. Because a singularity's qualities are plural and incommensurable, such markets rely on judgment devices that guide buyers (Karpik 2010), pricing rituals tha...

Accountable, Not Trustless: A Pre-Blockchain Rule Read Against Blockchain's Displaced Promises

Across Bitcoin and the blockchain-art discourse, four recurring claims can be distinguished: trust minimization, authenticity, scarcity, and preservation. A deliberately critical corpus documents each as displaced rather than delivered: trust is relocated, authenticity is located...