Frontiers of Coordination #13 - Memetic Filters and Collective Imagineering in Web3 w/ Travis Wyche

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On this episode of Frontiers of Coordination Peth welcomes artist, philosopher and researcher Travis Wyche. After a couple of years in the Web3 space he considers himself a more culturally focused contributor rather than a technical person even when he spends part of his time doing a variety of research on UXs and developing UI design. The fact is that the interweaving of his skills and interests led to Pluriverse, a transmedia lorecrafting experiment in collective imagineering.

Screaming at punk shows was his first approach to the Moloch meme. Later in life when he entered Web3 he would connect it to Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl, an event that in a way funneled him down a rabbit hole of connecting these cultural influences with the technical game theory of coordination. That is what attracted him to the space in the first place: “I'm not really a Degen; I didn't get drawn into crypto through DeFi or anything like that, through the tokens really at all, but more of the high level philosophy, politics, the various kinds of connections to things in my own background as an artist, as a musician, as a community organizer, as an anarchist, as an aging punk. All those kinds of cultural affinities are what brought me in”.

It's from that perspective that he appreciates the meaning of the Moloch meme, known as the god of coordination failure while also associated with child sacrifice among other things. For him,it’s an image that serves as a “memetic filter” for people to understand the potency that image creates for a “community first” kind of orientation.

Some of the topics:

• His origins in the space

• The rise and fall of the Moloch meme

• Moloch memetic filter

• Individual mindshift for successful coordination

• WTF is Pluriverse

• Pluriverse current projects

• Genres, themes and characters in Pluriverse

• Regen in the space

• Regen beyond crypto

• MetaCrisis

• Intentional communities

• A.I.

Resources:

• DAOHaus Twitter

• DAO Haus Web

• Pluriverse twitter

• Pluriverse Web

• MolochDAO website

• MolochDAO twitter

• MetaCartel twitter

• MetaCartel website

• Allen Ginsberg poem Howl

• GreenPill Website

• GreenPill Podcast

• Kevin Owoki Twitter