Category:Network Nations
New section created mid-2023.
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"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."
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"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]
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"Balaji’s conference exists because, in much of the West, governance has stopped learning.
Infrastructure ages, bureaucracies calcify, housing stagnates, education ossifies. The startup city becomes a mirage of renewal in a civilisation that has forgotten how to iterate.
This is what my earlier essay, When Institutions Learn and When They Don’t, made palpable: systems collapse not from stupidity, but from metabolic fatigue—when the feedback loops between energy, information, and legitimacy break down.
The Network State conference was a crowd of exhausted optimists trying to reverse that fatigue with code alone. In their own way, they are the Californian cousins of (upcoming post) surplus humans—people displaced by the speed of their own inventions."
- Chor Pharn [2]
Key Concepts
- Cosmopolis
- Network Nations
- Network State
- Phyles ; Neo-Venetianist Networks
- Post-National Professional Elite Formation
- Sphere Sovereignty
Key Resources
Articles
Books
* Book: Farewell to Westphalia. Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance. By Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow.
Pages in category "Network Nations"
The following 75 pages are in this category, out of 75 total.
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- Network Nations
- Network Sovereignty
- Network State
- Network State Dashboard
- Network State in the Blockchain Ecosystem and Their Potential Impact on Global Governance
- Network Union
- Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition
- New Forms of Web3-Enabled Nation-Statehood
- Nusantara
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- Patchwork
- Patri Friedman on Creating Politically Autonomous Communities
- Peter Ludlow on Crypto Anarchy and Cyberstates
- Polis Labs
- Pop-Up Cities
- Post-National Professional Elite Formation
- PostWestphalian Datafied Network States
- Power of Networks
- Praxis
- Primavera De Filippi on the Critique of the Network State Concept of Balaji Srivanasan
- Private Countries
- Pronomos
- Protocol Sovereignty