the networks in A Half-Built Garden are governed, and that government is local as well as directly democratic. The presence of democratic governance—and its dependence on consent, rather than the subversion of it—gestures towards the models being experimented with today in the context of the Fediverse and other distributed, decentralized, and cooperative digital commons.
An essay on attention, social media, and democracy.
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