62. Discarding NFT's RSS

62. Discarding NFT's -

Utilising NFTs for the realisation of ecofeminist portraits of the Seven Goddess Sisters seems incongruous with the ethos these portraits aim to uphold. The Ethereum blockchain, on which most NFTs are traded, is notorious for its energy consumption, echoing ecofeminism's concerns over practices that detriment nature and marginalise vulnerable groups. An ecofeminist standpoint resists nature's commodification; however, NFTs commodify even intangible digital art, potentially diluting the profound significance of the goddesses. Moreover, the exclusivity surrounding cryptocurrencies and NFTs challenges ecofeminism's equity principles, as they can perpetuate existing disparities, and is primarily the “premise of this tech is rooted in exclusion...

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