Table of Contents

Manuscript last updated:6/15/13

Note:   This is the latest version of the Table of Contents I first published in March 2011, which has been reorganized and expanded several times since then.  It’s a very rough draft, with much of the final content still in the form of placeholders (“insert material on x from y”).  Some chapters are missing entire subsections.  This is by far the roughest draft I’ve ever published. The idea is to follow Eric Raymond’s “release early” and “many eyeballs make shallow bugs” advice. Although the date of the post will stay the same, the organization will be revised from time to time and chapter files constantly updated to include the latest edits. The date of most recent editing will always be at the end of the text or pdf file of each chapter.

Thanks to Steve Herrick for the new format of the odt files 12/26/11.

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Contents

Chapter One–The Stigmergic Revolution (odt)

Reduced Capital Outlays
Distributed Infrastructure
Network Culture
Stigmergy

Chapter Two–Networks vs. Hierarchies (odt)

The Systematic Stupidity of Hierarchies
Hierarchies vs. Networks
Networks vs. Hierarchies
Systems Disruption
Transition from Hierarchies to Networks
The Question of Repression
The Question of Collapse
Conclusion

Chapter Three–The Open Source Regulatory State (odt)

The Regulatory State:  Myth and Reality
Individual Super-empowerment
The “Long Tail” in Regulation
Networked Resistance as an Example of Distributed Infrastructure
Informational Warfare (or Open-Mouth Sabotage)
A Narrowcast Model of Open Mouth Sabotage
Attempts to Suppress or Counter Open Mouth Sabotage
Who Regulates the Regulators?
Networked, Distributed Successors to the State: Saint-Simon, Proudhon and “the Administration of Things”
Monitory Democracy
“Open Everything”
Panarchy
Collective Contracts
Heather Marsh’s “Proposal for Governance
Michel Bauwens’ Partner State

Chapter Four–Fundamental Infrastructures (odt)

Hakim Bey
Bruce Sterling:  Islands in the Net
Phyles:  Neal Stephenson
Phyles:  Las Indias and David de Ugarte
Bruce Sterling:  The Caryatids
Daniel Suarez
John Robb:  Economies as a Social Software Service
MiiU and OpenWorld
Betaville
Vinay Gupta:  Government in a Box
Meshkit Bonfire
Medieval Guilds as Predecessors of the Phyle
Older Platform-Module Architectures for the Alternative Economy
Modern Networked Labor Unions and Guilds as Examples of Phyles
Virtual States as Phyles:  Hamas, Etc.
A Proposed Phyle Organization for OSE Europe
P2P Foundation Phyle
United Phyles
Eugene Holland: Nomad Citizenship
Producism/Producia
Grow Venture:  The Networked Platform as Incubator for Enterprises
Venessa Miemis: Collaboratory
The Hub
Emergent Cities
The Value of the Phyle as Opposed to Other Models of Cooperation
The Incubator Function
Mix & Match

Chapter Five–Fundamental Infrastructures:  Money (odt)

What Money’s For and What it Isn’t
The Adoption of Networked Money Systems
Examples of Networked Money Systems

Chapter Six–Fundamental Infrastructures:  Education and Credentialing (odt)

Introduction:  Whom Do Present-Day Schools Really Serve
Alternative Models
Potential Building Blocks for an Open Alternative
Open Course Materials
Open Textbooks
Open Learning Platforms
Credentialing

Chapter Seven–The Assurance Commons (odt)

Introduction
Legibility:  Vertical and Horizontal. Ostrom, Graeber, Scott, etc.
Networked Certification, Reputational and Verification Mechanisms

Chapter Eight–The Open Source Labor Board (odt)

Historic Models
Networked Labor Struggle
Open-Mouth Sabotage

Chapter Nine–Open Source Civil Liberties Enforcement (odt)

Protection Against Non-State Civil Rights Violations
When the State is the Civil Liberties Violator
Circumventing the Law
Circumvention: Privacy vs. Surveillance
Seeing Like a State, and the Art of Not Being Governed
Exposure and Embarrassment
Networked Activism and the Growth of Civil Society

Chapter Ten–The Open Source Fourth Estate (odt)

The Industrial Model
Open Source Journalism

Chapter Eleven–Open Source National Security (odt)

The State as Cause of the Problem: Blowback
Meta-Organization
Active Defense, Counter-Terrorism, and Other Security Measures
Passive Defense
The Stateless Society as the Ultimate in Passive Defense
When “Our” State Colludes With the Foreign Threat
Disaster Relief

Bibliography (odt)

Appendices

Appendix 1.  Diebold and Sinclair Media:  Two Case Studies in Informational Warfare (odt)
Appendix 2.  Case Study in Networked Resistance:  From Wikileaks to Occupy Wall Street–and Beyond (odt)
Appendix 3. A Model Anti-Corporate Campaign (odt)