, Bread Coop Zone (Studio)
A presentation examining the political dimensions of cryptocurrency and blockchain, questioning whether these technologies lean left, right, or beyond traditional political frameworks.
Phakin (Kin) is a PhD researcher in Sociology at St. John's College, the University of Cambridge, supported by the Cambridge-Thai Foundation scholarship in partnership with the Cambridge Trust. In 2026-2027, he is also a research fellow at the Institute for Digital Cooperative Economy (ICDE) at The New School, New York. His doctoral research explores the intersection of leftist politics and blockchain technologies through an empirical case of the Crypto Leftist communities. It examines how the cryptolefts reconfigure the logic of blockchain affordances through collective identity formation and participatory practices, expressed in the form of tech cooperative, blockchain-based applications, and everyday interactions across digital platforms.