14/ Institutional forms didn't suddenly "discover" networks as an organizing structure. They merely unboxed them and allowed them to connect
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27/ But your "emergent box" (for example, fora like arXiv) do need the equivalent of indirect cost support flowing towards them somehow
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28/ A broad way to understand this is that the Internet, as an institutional stack base-layer, lacks indirection/persistence dynamics
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29/ So while I'm all for de-institutionalizing the Industrial Age and its dinosaur institutions, I'm skeptical that it will be lossless
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30/ The Internet is not institutional magic-sauce. It can't create something out of nothing, or costlessly store/embody stuff.
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31/ The net needs financial plumbing to fuel network-mode reboxing that can persist value of no immediate value but that we'll regret losing
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32/ "Reboxing" is the wrong term actually. Unboxing is the right term for the destruction process, but the creation process deals in flows
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33/ We need flow metaphors for reboxing. Something like adding insulating layers to pipes or something. Not entirely sure where to take that
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