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Weekly digest, hand-picked resources, and voices shaping the space.
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Hand-picked references for going deeper into the space.
The durable shelf. Start here when someone asks what the movement is actually about.
Published 2022
The Network State
Balaji S. Srinivasan
Book2022
The movement's reference book: a cloud-first path from online community to territory and diplomatic recognition.
Published 1997
The Sovereign Individual
James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg
Book1997
The 1990s information-age precedent. Read beside Balaji to see what is old and what is newly possible.
Published 2026
Startup States
Julien Andrew Starr
Book2026
A treaty-first countermodel: new states through host-country agreement, legal structure, and recognition.
Published 1990
Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom
Book1990
The empirical commons counterweight: how communities govern shared resources beyond state or market defaults.
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Recent articles from our network
Underthrowsubstack
Think Outside the Ballot Box
If we don’t start building what comes next, our pathological political systems will self-destruct, and the worst will be waiting to take over.
Nov 5, 2026
Free Citiessubstack
What Makes a Government Worth Trusting?
Imagine moving to a new city where you know almost no one.
Nov 3, 2026
The Palladium Lettersubstack
Join us in NYC and DC
Get your tickets and join us for the first PALLADIUM Magazine lectures on the East Coast, featuring Marko Jukic on humanity, space, and industrial civilization.
Nov 3, 2026
Niklas Anzinger (Infinita City Times)substack
The FDA Commissioner Who Wanted to Approve Drugs After Safety Testing
History of Ideas Series, Chapter I: Andrew von Eschenbach
Nov 3, 2026
The Palladium Lettersubstack
Do Not Tread Lightly
Our society avoids confronting the reality of death, and reflection on life, by mandating forgetting of those that pass away through the rapid and ever less ceremonial disposal of their bodies.
Nov 2, 2026
Underthrowsubstack
Tax the Winners
An absurd proposal to make voters pay for the government they elect.
Nov 2, 2026
Agartha.Onesubstack
Holistic Wellness: The Foundation for a Solarpunk Lifestyle
Don’t regenerate a planet on four hours of sleep
Nov 2, 2026
Growing the Commonssubstack
Shrinking Giants, Part 6: Beyond Fossil Finance
Moving towards post-growth in a world where states must grow or lose their security
Nov 1, 2026
[ VOICES ]
A compact, non-exhaustive directory of people worth tracking.
A starter map, not a ranking. We will keep refining it as the field evolves.
Balaji Srinivasan
@balajis
Network State thesis
The canonical vocabulary, strategic frame, and builder energy behind the Network State thesis.
Vitalik Buterin
@VitalikButerin
Public goods and coordination
Long-form writing on Ethereum, public goods, Zuzalu, coordination, and pluralist governance.
Parallel Citizen
@analogueusb
New societies psychology
Psychology of new societies, network states, identity, and pseudonymity.
Michel Bauwens
@mbauwens
Commons and cosmolocalism
Commons, P2P, cosmolocalism, and civilizational transition from the P2P Foundation founder.
Audrey Tang
@audreyt
Digital democracy
Taiwan's digital democracy, g0v/vTaiwan lineage, and practical pluralist technology.
Primavera De Filippi
@yaoeo
Blockchain law and governance
Legal theory for DAOs, blockchain governance, commons, and code-mediated institutions.
Kei Kreutler
@keikreutler
DAO and protocol culture
Writing on DAOs, protocol memory, cultural narratives, and organizational design.
Mark Lutter
@MarkLutter
Charter cities
Institution-building, charter cities, governance markets, and the development side of new cities.
Niklas Anzinger
@NiklasAnzinger
Startup-city operator
Infinita, Próspera, longevity biotech, and operator notes from a live startup-city experiment.
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