SuperRare: Collaborative marketplace scene or asymmetric business?
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are digital assets that emerged around 2014 thanks to blockchain technology and became popular with the open-source platform Ethereum. A few years later, with the 2020 pandemic, they reached their peak in sales. In this article, we will investigate the reading contract of...
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Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://latrama.unr.edu.ar/index.php/trama/article/view/899 |
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| Sumario: | NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are digital assets that emerged around 2014 thanks to blockchain technology and became popular with the open-source platform Ethereum. A few years later, with the 2020 pandemic, they reached their peak in sales. In this article, we will investigate the reading contract of an exclusive digital art website called SuperRare, launched in 2018. We will briefly review the regularities and differences in the construction of the enunciator and the enunciate in the period from 2021 to 2024 inclusive. Who is its enunciator? Who can consume, collect, or sell digital art? Is there, as suggested in the introductory texts, a real decentralization of governance in this “digital community”? A detailed analysis of its sections and mutations allowed us to problematize the idea of a collaborative market, identifying asymmetries not only in the form of participation but also in a gradual hierarchization of the official voice. In fact the site portrays itself as a community, but this seems to be contradicted by its own discursive functioning. |
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