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1/ Network Nations are born from three major shifts in how we organize power and community 🧵⬇️
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Civil society born of networks, not borders. Join a global alliance building self-sovereign communities in the network age ↓
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Excerpt from our last Network Nations community call with Polis Labs - an independent research institute studying the science of voluntary order.🌐
@Polis_Labs
Polis Labs explores how free communities coordinate, why they fail, and what frameworks help them endure - building intellectual and cultural infrastructure for the parallel society movement.
🤍Join the next call here: luma.com/networknations…
🤍Learn more about Polis Labs: polis-labs.org
🤍Explore Network Nations: networknations.network
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In great company with forthcoming research on Network Nations from @felix_beer and @yaoeo.
Web3Privacy Now@web3privacy
Probably nothing, but we are up to publish a book on power, cryptography, democracy & sovereignty. With great contibutions from + @yaoeo [a French legal scholar, Internet activist and artist] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera… + @chaumdotcom [legendary cryptographer] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cha… + @naomibrockwell x @LudlowInstitute [exceptional privacy & free software advocate] + @jaromil x @DyneOrg [godfather of european anarchist hacker culture] + Judith De Boer + Joachim Schwerin [Alexey Pertsev lawyer meets former European Commision policymaker] + @audreyt + @glenweyl [Plurality excerpt from Taiwan cyber-ambassador at large + tech for democracy thinker] Going out of the printing press in June!
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Most commentary treats & thinks about Network States and Network Nations as variations of the same phenomenon - crypto-coordinated communities experimenting with governance. but this is a category error. It is like confusing a joint-stock company with a city-state simply because both use double-entry bookkeeping.
We agree on the diagnosis & what tech to use - institutional decay is real & our current technological reality create an opening for new kinds of politys to emerge. But apart from that the approach is very different.
Importantly - Network State is an attempt to optimize the logic of the firm for territorial acquisition.
Network Nation is an attempt to optimize the logic of the commons for functional autonomy.
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@networknations_ you guys have a lot of debunking to do with claims made against network states
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Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸@jimstewartson
Peter Thiel founded Palantir which is becoming the “operating system of the government.” Peter Thiel invested in Curtis Yarvin’s Urbit which aims to be the “operating system of the network state.” The goal of the “network state” is to destroy the government. 🤔
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Why bother with Network Nations? 🌐 (1/8)
Because many of today’s most important communities, problems, and forms of coordination no longer fit neatly inside inherited institutions.
Network Nations address this structural gap from two directions at once: expanding civic participation where institutions fall short, and building governance capacity in translocal spaces they do not reach.
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(8/8)🐦🐦 +🪨 Network Nations matter because they make political agency possible in the spaces where more and more of collective life now unfolds.
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(7/8) Network Nations can. By virtue of their translocal character and functional sovereignty, they reach into domains that existing institutions are structurally unable to inhabit.
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💻 Our updated website is live at networknations.network
🐝 Membership applications are now open for individuals and organizations.
We've wired up review & approvals via any three existing stewards — low-fi web2 multi-sig role playing (for now).
Apply here: networknations.network/apply/
📚 A new knowledge garden is also live — browse, contribute via GitHub, or raise your hand to help improve environments, workflows, and agentic integration.
🌿 garden.networknations.network🐙 github.com/networknations…
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Big updates from the Network Nations Alliance! 🌐
Read the full 🧵 to track all of the latest ways to connect and participate! 👇
📆 Our next Monthly Call is Wednesday, May 6th — and it's going to be a good one.
Join us: luma.com/tt22k8zi
⚡️ We're joined by @Polis_Labs (polis-labs.org)
They'll be presenting on Applied Human Governance: their theory of change, the emerging field of synousiology, and what they've already surfaced as a new govtech org working in this space.
Expect deep dives into:
→ Hidden hierarchies & hidden authorities in the movement
→ Practical approaches for novel community builders
→ Participatory knowing & tacit knowledge
→ How all of this shapes governance & community organization
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As debates around AI, platform power & digital sovereignty heat up, this is the perfect episode to listen to:
In Episode 9 of the Network Nations mini-series,
@felix_beer sits down with @nsrnicek — author of Platform Capitalism and Silicon Empires — and @CossarSofia (BlockchainGov / CNRS) to unpack Network Sovereignty.
They break down how power is shifting from nation-states to digital networks, why platforms now act as political infrastructure, and what it would take to turn them into democratic commons instead of extractive empires.
⭕️ Listen here: youtube.com/watch?v=HKnPjB…
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Network Nations invite us to imagine—and to build—political communities that are locally grounded, globally connected, and collectively sovereign. Realizing this vision will require sustained imagination, bold experimentation, and collective learning.
Join us here>
networknations.substack.com/p/network-nati…
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