Reading Group Restart

General Discussions
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Proposed Reading Plan

Governable Spaces, by Nathan Schneider

Session 1 – Diagnosis: implicit feudalism and homesteading
April 2, 4:30-6pm PT (Luma Event)
Read pages 1-57

  • Introduction
    1. Implicit Feudalism: The Origins of Counter-democratic Design, Profile: CommunityRule
    1. Homesteading on a Superhighway: How the Politics of No-Politics Aided an Authoritarian Revival, Profile: A People’s History of Twitter

Session 2 – Remedies: creative and liberatory self-governance
Date TBD
Read pages 58-105

    1. Democratic Mediums: Case Studies in Political Imagination, Profile: Excavations
    1. Governable Stacks: Organizing against Digital Colonialism, Profile: Modpol

Session 3 – Policy design, metagovernance and possible futures
Date TBD
Read pages 106-130

    1. Governable Spaces: Democracy as a Policy Strategy
  • Epilogue: Metagovernance
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