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: Received: 26 September 2024 / Approved: 27 September 2024 / Online: 29 September 2024 (11:09:19 CEST)
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Weinhold, M. A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements?. Preprints2024, 2024092239. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2239.v1
Weinhold, M. A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements?. Preprints 2024, 2024092239. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2239.v1
Weinhold, M. A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements?. Preprints2024, 2024092239. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2239.v1
APA Style
Weinhold, M. (2024). A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements?. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2239.v1
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Weinhold, M. 2024 "A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements?" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.2239.v1
Abstract
In a time of ecological and social crises, designing new institutions is crucial for meeting future challenges. Institutions emerge from the imaginations of individuals, moving into social movements and crystallizing in legal structures. As present movements seek to develop tomorrow’s governances, they turn to decentralized structures: distributed networks with little hierarchy, characterized by a diversity of actors and dynamics. While movements and technologies may seek to utilize decentralized ideas, they lack design principles: only recently has it been possible to decentralize at the national stage. Designs may come from biology and ecological networks; fungi, plants, and slime molds in soil to the neurons, glia, and blood vessels within our own bodies. This article blends these biological analogies with present technologies like blockchain and Web3 to posit future decentralized institutions, movements and legalities that give greater consideration to the more-than-human world.
Keywords
Decentralized; networks; institutions;more-than-human; fungi; social movements; legalities; neuroscience
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Other
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
