New section created mid-2023.

Quote

1.

"Nation-states organize affective memories into a vibe-based territorial logic, 

metropolises organize declarative memories into capability based physical network supernodes that are dense population centers 

cosmopolises organize procedural memories into widely diffused infrastructures."

2.

"More than one distinctive cosmopolis may emerge in response to a technological stimulus, and the set of cosmopolises may not be either mutually exclusive or collectively exhaustive in relation to either the planet or the political world. A cosmopolis is not a planetarity. It is a smaller unit of analysis, and a legibly embodied geographic reality in a way a planetarity is not. We can sketch out cosmopolises on maps. ... new technologies induce new normals through protocolization of what is initially a weird and scary sort of monstrousness irrupting across a frontier. Beyond that frontier lies a new kind of territory, a new kind of “soil” on which societies can be built. Protocols are the engines of what I called manufactured normalcy a decade ago, and cosmopolises correspond loosely to what I called Manufactured Normalcy Fields.

- Venkatesh Rao [1]

Key Concepts

• Cosmopolis
• Network Nations
• Network State
• Sphere Sovereignty

Key Resources

* Book: Farewell to Westphalia. Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance. By Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow.