(2014-04-16) Carson Desktop Regulatory State Excerpts

Kevin Carson has posted 8 excerpts (see links at end) from his in-process Desktop Regulatory State book.

• 2011-01-07-CarsonHomebrewIndustrialRevolutionBook

Networked organization offers, as well, to supplant the regulatory state’s old licensing, authentication and quality certification functions. If Consumer Reports was pithecanthropus in this evolutionary schema, and Angie’s List is homo erectus, then the future lies with full-blown networked civil societies (Network Society), organized on a voluntary basis, providing a context within which secure commercial relationships and other forms of cooperation can take place. The future of this model has been described variously as neo-Venetianism or phyles (fictionally in NealStephenson’s The Diamond Age and non-fictionally in de Ugarte’s work (2010-09-14-UgartePhylesTribe)), the Dark Net in DanielSuarez’s Daemon/Freedom, and “economies as a social software service” by John Robb (2010-11-09-RobbIntentionalEconomyAsService).