A network state is a highly aligned community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.
Technology has allowed us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to create new cities, or even new countries? A key concept is to go cloud first, land last — but not land never — by starting with an online community and then materializing it into the physical world.
Button TextAn online community with aspirations of something greater and organize into a group capable of collective action. While simultaneously building an internal economy using cryptocurrency.
Crowdfund a set of digitally connected physical territories distributed around the world. Begin holding in-person meetups in the physical world. Physical access is granted by holding a web3 cryptopassport.
As the society scales, run a cryptographically auditable census to demonstrate the growing size of your population, income, and real-estate footprint. Should eventually be able to negotiate for diplomatic recognition.
Create your own pirate utopia, whether temporary, periodic or even permanent. In effect you would attempt to live as if the Revolution had already occurred. Enjoy it as long as it lasts.
A new theory of change for establishing a post-scarcity baseline of superabundance by constructing new fiscal architectures for the network state and simulating post-financial sandboxes.
Unifying web2 and web3 into one seamless layer, accelerating interoperability across the omniweb.
A potent brew of mysticism, historical narratives, post-anarchism, french critical theory, and fringe economics. It has little interest in dialogue and none in disciples – seeking instead co-conspirators.
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A mere political program will not suffice nor will a poem. Aesthetics for a network state must point beyond (or even away) from ideology and abstraction, something non-ordinary.