Kei Kreutler

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My work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.

Writing

My writing connects historical research with emerging technologies. I share when I publish writing on my newsletter, and some non-fiction essays include:

A Very Short Introduction to Memory and Technology, 2025
Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity, 2024
A Prehistory of DAOs: Cooperatives, gaming guilds, and the networks to come, 2021
The Byzantine Generalization Problem: Subtle strategy in the context of blockchain governance, 2018

Selected print contributions include:

All Media is Training Data, Serpentine Galleries, 2024
Catastrophe Time!, Strange Attractor Press/ MIT Press, 2023
Radical Friends, Torque Editions, 2022

Research

My research centers on philosophy of technology, and previous fellowship work explored how ideas of memory changed with the advent of computing, from classical mnemonic techniques to contemporary artificial intelligence.1 For the Summer of Protocols program, I now lead the Memory Research Group.

Some things about me

I grew up in the northeastern United States, and for a decade, I lived in Europe. From 2017 to 2022 in Berlin, Germany, I worked at Gnosis, building open-source software for decentralized governance. While there, I co-created Gnosis Guild, a small team within the company that established an open standard to support composable, modular software for organizations.2 In 2023, I participated as a Core Researcher in the Summer of Protocols program.3

I recently moved back to northeastern United States, where I live on a mountainside laying the groundwork for a long term project. I currently write on technology, as well as advise on organizational design, memory, and strategy through my consultancy Inner Library, contribute to Other Internet Research Institute, and sit on the Board of Regen Foundation.4, 5 Write to contact@keikreutler.net to get in touch.

When I’m away, you’ll often find me hiking Franconia Ridge or the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with family.

“If men were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one’s psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, 1964