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Finn Brunton

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Finn Brunton is an American research and writer, specialising in artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and cryptography, best known for his publications Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency (2019), Communication (2019), Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (2015), and Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (2013). He has also published a guest essay in the New York Times in 2025.[1] He was an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Currently, he is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Cinema and Digital Media at University of California, Davis, where he also coordinates the research node on cultural imaginaries at UC Davis Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures (CAIEF). [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

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  1. "Opinion | How a Fringe Movement of Gun Nuts, Backwoodsmen and Free Marketers Paved the Way for Autocracy". 2025-10-24. Archived from the original on 2025-11-01. Retrieved 2026-01-21.
  2. https://arts.ucdavis.edu/cinema-digital-media-people
  3. Schneier, Bruce (7 February 2023). A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 247. ISBN 978-0-393-86667-4.
  4. McCarthy, Michael A. (7 January 2025). The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso Books. p. 290. ISBN 978-1-78873-064-8.
  5. Birch, David (27 May 2020). The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony. Do Sustainability. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-913019-08-2.
  6. "Finn Brunton". www.g10vandeeconomie.nl. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  7. "Should "Dead Media" Have Moral Standing?". A2Ethics - Giving Ethics a Permanent Place in Our Community. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  8. "12 Best Cryptocurrency Books You Need to Read in 2025". 99signals. 25 August 2025. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  9. "Research Node 1: Cultural Imaginaries | Center for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Futures". caief.sf.ucdavis.edu. 2025-10-18. Retrieved 2026-04-04.