Imma reup this because it turns out there some genuinely interesting writing about NFTs, just not what or where you’d expect. For example, Emily Ratajkowski kicked nettime’s collective *ss in a half-dozen directions at once — no big surprise because the list is (as they say) pretty stale, pale, and male. Dean Kissick in Spike is what you’d get when you overfilled a Vitamix with interesting observations: yummy stuff splattered everywhere. And Kal Raustiala and Christopher Jon Sprigman in Slate are good too. tl;dr: leftoid moralizing about “hoaxes” and “scams” is the theoretical quivalent of a cul-de-sac in a subdivison — it goes nowhere, just neighbors having each other over for margaritas to say the same things over and over.
[A few links people provided: Vicky Osterweil, “Money for Nothing,” in Real Life (Vuk Cosic) and Tina Rivers Ryan, “Token Gesture,” in Artforum (Rafael Lozano-Hemmer)]