NFTs and the Rise of the $70m Jpeg

A Jpeg by digital artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann), 39, sold for $69.3 at Christie's New York in March. For his pennies, the buyer got an NFT, a non-fungible token, a marker of authenticity enabled by blockchain technology. Zoe and Tom discuss what the sale – and the frenzy for NFTs – means for art and aesthetics and discuss the nature of the new digital markets redefining value itself. 

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A podcast for the culturally curious that turns a critical eye on some of the most-hyped plays, books, films and music in recent years and asks where they came from and what they tell us about culture today. Zoe Strimpel is a historian of gender and intimacy, Sunday Telegraph columnist and sincere contrarian. Tom Stammers is a fair-minded historian of 19th century France and a lecturer in European history at Durham University - who nonetheless knows how to turn the screw when necessary. They've been yammering about culture together since university.