
Faust
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NEW INSTITUTIONS
SQUAD ENERGY
NETWORKED SPIRITUALITY
The definitive Other Internet book is finally here, documenting 6 years of research on the cultural economies of crypto.
https://otherinternet.metalabel.com/other-internet-book?variantId=1
It collects nearly all our published essays, but there's much more:
- 🆕 4 new mini essays from Toby, Sam, Laura, and Aaron about how OI evolved and worked behind the scenes, a beautiful introduction from the ever-wise @keikreutler, and an interview on the state of independent research with Nadia Asparouhova
- 🤫 6 never-published rough-cut essays from our super secret internal learning processes
- ⏳ 1 existential timeline, documenting the changing story of crypto over OI's existence
Thank you for growing up with us. This book is for everyone who's been with us the whole way, for the day ones, for everyone who was ever in the squad, for our haters, and for the next generation of kids who play for keeps.
The internet is over. Long live the other internet. 4 replies
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It’s funny that the moment we all suddenly got really clear eyed about how capital & power wields trad media, most non boomers dropped Fox and MSNBC en masse… andddd we all shifted straight to algo-feeds and “content creators.”
the legacy media issues are real, but new media is just as bad
We are not closer to the truth reading our substacks, we just each have our optimized feeds. Everyone has their influencers, their “current thing”. Platforms surface or repress according to their interests. Reporters and influencers fight for attention, streamers scrapping it out in an ever escalating war for reactions
Our perception is “alternative media,” but it’s just a new, enormous industry. Highly centralized, too. It feels different though, and we enjoy imaging ourselves as rational. The independent thinkers, blissfully unaware 14 replies
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