Posts
Posts are syndicated across various social media networks—find them here and join the discussion.
-
Let the president preside
I am trying to find solance in that maybe I was right about Biden back in 2020, but two wars later I am not so sure. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/bidens-candidacy-about-nothing/609769/
-
Notes on Old Religion
“May we give the reigning order a good death.” I’ve got a new essay, “Notes on Old Religion for New Network Sovereigns,” exploring how the Network State concept is cribbing from religion, and how religious legacies can help us sort the good from the bad. It’s part of a series: https://globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu/new-network-sovereignties-the-rise-of-non-territorial-states/
-
“All Along” in academic trappings
My essay “Web3 is the Opportunity We Have Had All Along” is now available, along with its excellent companions, behind the full glory of an academic paywall: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X202489 You can still get the free, carnivalesque version here: https://cryptocarnival.wtf/schneider
-
Update on “Sister Monica”
The article I am proudest of was on the then-secret ministry of a Catholic nun with trans folks. Now she is out in the open. David Van Biema has a deeper, fuller new profile of her extraordinary life: https://outreach.faith/2024/06/no-body-now-but-yours/
-
To be governed
Waking up here for today’s #GovernableSpaces event in SF https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf
-
The theory of everything
What is a good name for the inevitability that, in every field of inquiry, someone will eventually try to turn it into a theory of everything?
-
What if the problem is not venture capital?
I have often blamed venture capital for the problems of tech. But what if the exits VCs were after were #exittocommunity? Could VC be redeemed? Let’s go upstream to the source.
-
Why the future of democracy could depend on your group chats
The future of democracy doesn’t lie just with Trump or Biden—it begins, I argue, in our everyday organizational lives, which we now live largely online: https://theconversation.com/why-the-future-of-democracy-could-depend-on-your-group-chats-229597
-
Humans R Social Media—now includes “regulation”
The glory of Open Educational Resources! A new edition of the textbook I use in my Intro to Social Media course is now out—and with a new chapter from me on “regulation,” as well as an invitation to shared governance. https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/humansrsocialmedia/
-
Blood in the Machine
Just laid down a Bluesky thread on Brian Merchant’s Blood in the Machine, tech imaginaries, and cooperative history: https://bsky.app/profile/ntnsndr.in/post/3ktg5vrluac2z