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Olivier Jutel image 2020 BA, PGDip, MA, PhD (The University of Otago)

Lecturer

Contact

Office 3N4, 3rd Floor, Arts (Burns)
Tel +64 3 471 6096
Email olivier.jutel@otago.ac.nz
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Background

Olivier's work is centred on the geopolitics of digital media and emerging technologies. In his first post at the University of the South Pacific he saw the importance of the developing world to American narratives of network freedom and NGO experiments in Fintech. Emerging technologies continue to be dominated by colonial logics of abundance and the venture capitalist dream of 'blue oceans'. Olivier's work has looked at blockchain in the developing world as an extension of American techno-colonialism. This has included the rise of Pacific blockchain imperalism, crypto-colonialism in West Africa or the platform imperialism of American policy settings in Aotearoa / New Zealand. More recently he has written about the Network State movement of venture and crypto nomads, which Gizmodo has dubbed the "Worst New Trend of 2024". Olivier is a former journalist and media worker. His PhD Liberalism and its Populist Excess looked at the affective styles of both liberal media and Fox News conservatism.

Research interests and expertise

  • Political Economy of the Media
  • Crypto, blockchain and Web3
  • Platform Imperialism and Data Sovereignty
  • Post-politics and Populism
  • Science, Technology and Society
  • Discourse and Psychoanalytic Political Theory

Teaching

In Semester 1, 2025 Olivier is co-ordinating:

Olivier is on Sabbatical in Semester 2.

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