I find that alternatives lie in the everyday politics of hooks’s homeplace, of brown’s deliberate interdependence, and of Agre’s political skills.

hollowing out the rudiments of democratic culture, especially the skills and habits of accountable association.

DAOs habitually engage in token swaps to solidify collaborations,

It is through the practice of intentional self-governing that people can begin rethinking and remaking their tools.

Safe, the most popular “multisig” wallet that DAOs use to manage their digital assets, expects communities to set a certain threshold among their members to approve a transaction. But Safe also supports a project called Zodiac, “an expansion pack for DAOs” that enables communities to create and adopt diverse governance modules. Another widely used

governable spaces can be sites of problem-solving for vexing challenges in three domains of the online economy: social-media communities, platform-mediated work, and network infrastructure.

They switched their subreddits to private en masse, resulting in a widespread blackout of the platform’s content

For deliberation and decision-making, we turned to Loomio, the platform developed on the model of consensus process in the 2011 Occupy encampments.

Perhaps leaning so hard as I have on democracy will only cause it to snap. Perhaps we need another word; perhaps the word can be refurbished and put to better use. Either way, technology is sure to be drafted in the cause. A further fruit of Langdon Winner’s reflections on artifacts and politics is an observation about the amnesia that surrounds