Post-Nation
* Book: Post-Nation
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Description
Sondre Rasch:
"Brings together a set of perspectives grappling with a shared question: what comes after the nation-state as the default unit of organisation? No single essay offers a complete answer. Instead, this collection puts forward several, often in tension with each other.
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Taken together, these essays do not describe a single future, but they do map a landscape of possible ones.
What underpins them is the collective acknowledgement that the current system is under strain, and waiting for it to adapt may pose greater challenges."
(https://www.elysian.press/p/what-comes-after-the-nation-state)
Contents
"Eman Zabi asks what the first true internet-native country might look like—not as metaphor, but as a functioning system.
Michael Skinner explores how individuals might begin to invest in cities, while
Jeff Long pushes further, asking what it would mean to own part of one. Elle Griffin argues for trust ownership of cities or micronations.
Julian Shapiro considers whether countries themselves might become modular, able to spin out new jurisdictions much as companies spin out products.
Mark Lutter examines how the failure of existing nation-states could give rise to charter cities.
Madison Karas takes on one of the most foundational questions of all: how taxation might work in a network state."
(https://www.elysian.press/p/what-comes-after-the-nation-state)