Network Enlightenment

neo-Enlightenment triggered by spread of the Network Society: see (2021-07-07) Network Enlightenment

players: Network Enlightenment Ecosystem

Venkatesh Rao already made some Seeing like a Network references (cf Seeing Like a State)

• nice 2x2
  • Authoritarian Right: Seeing Like a State
  • Authoritarian Left: Seeing Like a Cell
  • Libertarian Right: Seeing Like a Token (blockchain)
  • Libertarian Left: Seeing Like a Network
• Seeing Like a Network: How certain un-schemes to improve the human condition have failed. (a pun on the subtitle of Seeing Like a State)
• contrasts it to Systems thinking done wrong, or
  The 7 Deadly Syns
  1. OG Chile Cybersyn, 1971
  2. Limits to Growth report, 1972
  3. Fifth Generation Computing, Japan, 1982
  4. Washington Consensus, 1989
  5. Network-Centric Warfare, 1997
  6. Certain Blockchain Ideas, 2017
  7. Xi’s China, 2018
• see also his 4GM/5GM framings