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The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart (The CBC Massey Lectures)

Bottom line: Network proximity is now on par with physical geography, and basic geopolitical assumptions about citizenship, migration, power projection, and the use of force need to be rethought for the digital world.

Parag Khanna, Balaji S. Srinivasan • Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Web3 Are Already Reshaping the World

“In any given situation, how might you increase the amount of freedom that’s available to you?” Sophie Scott-Brown’s version of anarchism — THE ALTERNATIVE

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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Starting in the 1960s, the social and legal institutions of America were remade to try to eliminate unfair choices by people in positions of responsibility. The new legal structures reflected a deep distrust of human authority in even its more benign forms—a teacher’s authority in the classroom, or a manager’s judgments about who’s doing the job, o

Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

Our current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more

Dark Matter Labs • Radicle Civics – Unconstituting Society 071022.pdf

We—Americans—don’t know how to do democracy. We don’t know how to make decisions together, how to create generative compromises, how to advance policies that center justice. Most of our movements are reduced to advancing false solutions, things we can get corporate or governmental agreement on, which don’t actually get us where we need to be. It wa