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“In the underworld, renegade technologists continue to explore. Makers in North Portland weld frankenstein cargo bikes with recycled batteries, musicians gather in a pizza shop in Chicago with generation-old brass instruments to continue a weekly jam session extant since the seventies. A psychonaut sweats in a Kentucky basement, subjecting their body to an altered state not known for a century this side of the Himalayas. Berlin anarchists sit cross legged in Görlitzer Park, tweaking new self-governance rhythms, microtubule alchemy to jointly collapse the wave. S&M is a technology. Permaculture. Protest strategies in Taiwan. Agroforestry in Mexico, community credit circles in Kenya, hybrid cuisines in Kiev, free creation to spite the war. Dōjinshi genre-forks in Tokyo, breathing techniques in Cassadaga. Everyone, everywhere is experimenting all the time, a massive open calculus, a stubborn material creativity. Ideologies rise, capture, go down in flames. The tools always remain in the rubble. (1/4)
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In looking at this productive landscape, this undertold but always churning global creative commons, we couldn’t help but notice the structural resonances between the open source protocols of web3 and the informal, ever disowned protocols of the underworld. There are permissive substrates in the form of knowledge sets and technical protocols. There are vectors of empirical inspiration. And there are social and cultural protocols intended to preserve the openness of the game. A prolix culture, grounded in a material craft, armed with social conventions meant to maintain the prolix attitude of the culture: these are open protocols. (2/4)
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Our frame on Ethereum Localism isn’t simply that we identify these kin, that we construct a passive analogy for academic interest - but that we encounter them, that we change them and are changed by them. As the reciprocal claim already suggests, this certainly doesn’t mean shaping the local substrates to our liking. It doesn’t mean offering tokenized mirrors of existing infrastructure, and it doesn’t mean building platforms that would just solve everything if they only had the network effects. The greatest gifts the Ethereum community can offer to the open protocol underground are low overhead organizations, scale agnostic organization models, revenue evil(opens in a new tab) hacks, and a structural framework for a protocolized coup of a proprietary knowledge-sector. (3/4)
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Ethereum localism, in summary - (in this account which is necessarily only one) - is a strategy of reciprocal mimesis between open, protocol-based cultures of the internet and the open pragmatist cultures of cities and bioregions. They are entangled by shared attitudes of immediacy, a pirate empiricism, a dread of coercive authority and a cutting sense of adequate technology. They self-identify not around what they are but what they can do, and they judge structures against the mysterious pragmatism of the terrain, whether virtual or material. Mysterious because there is no prescribing what you are - individual, alter, people, swarm - and there is no prescribing what you can or should do. It has to be built. That possibility space is our Ether.” Excerpt from “What is Ethereum Localism” (June 2024) https://www.ethereumlocalism.xyz/library/Ethereum-Localism/What-is-Ethereum-Localism (4/4)
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