Seasteading is settler colonialism: Victor Tiberius (ed.), Seasteads: Opportunities and Challenges for Small New Societies, vdf, 2017 | settler colonial studies blog

Seasteading is settler colonialism: Victor Tiberius (ed.), Seasteads: Opportunities and Challenges for Small New Societies, vdf, 2017

22Mar17

Description: Seasteads – artificial settlements on the open sea – represent a near-future chance for multiple societal restarts. Where nation states suffer from ineffectiveness and inefficiency, both politically and economically, and cannot be changed due to path-dependency and rigidity, the open sea is a clean slate. Here, we can test new ways of doing things differently.

This book discusses the opportunities and challenges of seasteads. Its focus is on socio-philosophical, political, economic, and legal aspects of founding new small societies of pro-active and productive individuals and groups. An explorative exercise, this book presents paradigmatic ideas and suggestions for partial aspects of seasteads.

Filed under: Uncategorized | Closed