Posting today from the Network Nations gathering at #EdgeEsmeralda, exploring together possibilities for self-governing communities...
A critical concept here is that of "exclosures," or gateways in dominant institutions that enable autonomous logics to exist.
Think copyleft and capoeira. Or Tor.
Here is Jessy Kate Schingler. (I love how this concept is so women-led.)
Here is Lou de Kerhuelvez on the Network Nations group's critique of Balaji's Network State.
Primavera De Filippi here on how Network Nations are a frame between corporations and states, a polity for the commons.
At a late night discussion the other night, after being pressed on how Network Nations could solve the pressing crises of the world today, Primavera said something I thought was profound: "this is the easiest way to do it if you don't know how to do it."
If you have that reasonable humility, there is not shortcut around self-governance.
Three principles for Network Nations
SUPERSIDIARITY
a bias for bottom up organizing
INTERDEPENDENCE/ENTANGLEMENT
a commitment to voice over exit
COSMOLOCALISM
as opposed to globalization—globalize the light things, localize the heavy things
Brilliant thinking from Nathalia Scherer on memory in Network Nations: what if we think of history as a mosaic rather than as a timeline?
@ntnsndr
This sounds great! It’s funny, I missed you at EE by 3 days. Learned a lot about blockchain governance, hope to catch up and chat soon!
@bwag I heard!!
@ntnsndr
Do you know if there’s a recording to be viewed/listened to?
@pdbowman I think there will be one but I'm not sure when/where.