Regen Foundation

Im of the opinion that in our everyday lives, we often attribute foundational concepts and actions to digital technologies that are already latent within “nature”, or living systems. Computation, signal processing, even the basis of organizations and institutions have been latent and diversely expressed in living / ecological networks since the get go. The world always already was an internet… The digital networks you are using to read this post are a new addition to a pattern that has been unfolding for a long time. This new book Ecological Institutions explores the possibility of new institutional forms that emerge from this kind of thinking… a world where living systems and digital / technical systems are “undualed”. It’s not that they are integrated, they’ve never been separate in the first place. This invites the question, how do we create and new organizational and institutional forms which nourish and regenerate our planet rather than consume it. What unlearning is entailed? I think part of the way that has to begin is by outgrowing the metabolic resource mindset. Beyond expanded beings, how can we create organizations and institutions that are “Earth native” so to speak? Digital addressing systems create the possibility for non-humans to be endpoints within digital networks. The ramifications of that humble assertion are actually pretty huge. It allows the possibility to expand non-human rights into novel territory where ecosystems and whole bioregions can vessels of value, data, and governance. There is a lot to work out, and thats the point of recent book. Im going to work through what that looks like concretely over a series of posts in the coming months. If you are interested in what’s possible in this expanded form of living organizational thinking, check out our website and get Ecological Institutions : Law, Economics, and Technology in a More-Than-Human World. regen.foundation

“The particularly exciting bit about Network Nations is that the fringe movements now have a pathway to exert more geopolitical power and create stronger interfaces with institutions.” 🎙️ In Ep:6 "Regen: Toward a Network Nation Identity, Commons & Collective Agency" @owocki, @MontyMerlin & Austin Wade Smith sit down with Primavera De Filippi to discuss bioregional + digital hybrid communities, DAO-of-DAOs coordination, feeling lost at a crypto conference & the rise of ecological state protocols. This conversation anchors the Network Nation debate deeper in the physical realm. Listen here 📷 youtube.com/watch?v=FAYI_9… @networknations_

Announcing Festival of Value, an online lecture series supported by @anoma and hosted by Studio A exploring the grassroots, ecological and aesthetic implications of intents-centric architectures and scale free money. —— This October, Festival of Value will convene a global, transdisciplinary cohort of theorists and builders to explore how Anoma's intent-centric architecture might aid the experiments in economic pluralism unfolding around the world. Over the course of a week, across fourteen talks and a culminating roundtable, the series will surface builders and theorists from alternative currency, post-capitalist economics, bioregionalist and rights of nature communities and invite them into conversation around the affordances and potentials of a scale-free money economy and an intent-centric economic interface to navigate it. This series is an effort to consequentialize intent-centric architectures by putting them into dialogue with communities that have real stake in reimagining value. How might protocol designers, economist localists, social entrepreneurs and more come together to articulate a world where value is many and mutually entangled, where economic relationships are democratic and expressive? —— October 23/24, 27/28/29 (5 days) 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, PDT Google Meet 10/23, Thursday: Civic/Local Intents 10:00 a.m. @cwgoes “Anoma and Scale Free Money” 10:50 a.m. @psruano “POCAs and Intents” 11:40 a.m. Ola Kohut “Gardens of Value, Spaces of Care: Plural Economies for Collective Wellbeing” 10/24, Friday: Cybernetics of Value 10:00 a.m. Howard Silverman “Cybersystemic Simplicities & Currency Speculations” 10:50 a.m. @jeffemmett “MycoFi and Intents” 11:40 a.m. Pamela Pascual “Terra Twin: Planetary Symbiosis and Living Intents” 10/25-26, Weekend Break 10/27, Monday: Ecological Intents 10:00 a.m. @wor “Grassroots Economics” 10:50 a.m. @willszal “Hyperbeings and Intents” 11:40 a.m. Cheryl Chen “Salmon Returns and Bioregional Intents” 10/28, Tuesday: Coordination Infrastructure 10:00 a.m. @natesuits “Intent Paths to Decentralized Public Administration(DPan)” 10:50 a.m. Spencer Saar Cavanaugh (@clinamenic ) “Intentional Semantics: Using Semantic Web Standards to Signal Collaborative Intents” 11:40 a.m. @0xd2_eth “Intent-based Cookie Jars as Fluid Funding Dynamic” 10/29, Wednesday: Speculative Intents 10:00 a.m. @stinalinneag “Intents and the Life of Aesthetics” 10:50 a.m. Marcus Khoo “DeSci and Intents” 11:40 a.m. Closing Session RSVP link in comments 👇