Outer Edges (Session 6)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone. Welcome to the sixth session of Nick Lan's Outer Edges 21st Century Special Metapolitics Seminar. Nick, I'm going to pass on the camera and microphone to you to start the class. Okay, cool. Welcome everybody. Great to see you all here. I hope people have a sense of the reading this week. I've…

• 00:23:10

  It's about the seasteading. It's about the seasteading. It's about the seasteading. It's about the seasteading. It's about the seasteading, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation, the orientation…

• 00:44:15

  And I… Yeah. …you know, the stuff that's actually being done is being done close to shore, you know. And that… it's obviously a coherent package. And that means that it has to be done… actually, I'd like to quote him. So I… but I'll get it a little bit by memory that I think… I think it's Doherty… Sorry. I've just…

• 01:06:24

  So, that tends to obscure some of the boundaries here. But there's. . . I think there's a fundamental bifurcation about the point that within the dominant architectural traditions, that some kind of coherent, centralized social approval is accepted as a kind of an element within the architectural project. So…

• 01:29:14

  And that's your fundamental constraint. Yeah. Yeah I think that's totally right, and obviously on the flip side, as we've seen, it's into the contemporary. The theory of deterrence. I mean from the side of, from the normal side, the side of the kind of existing X risk suppression discourses, these are just things that…

• 01:48:24

  I think. Yeah. I think the space treaty, I think, actually was first in 67 and then the laws of the sea were put together in the early 70s and revamped in the 90s. But, yeah. I mean, it's a bit of a… Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, the ironic effect of this stuff is it means that anyone who does want to engage…

• 02:11:34

  Yeah. Just speculative. No, but your conversation with Derek is great actually because it covers this fantastic spectrum. Because, yeah, on one side, like if you, it's this thing about there's a whole bunch of extremely divergent or not divergent, convergent, but distinct narratives that can be, that stuff can come…

• 02:33:57

  So yeah. I'm going to put this little footnote at the very end. So please engage with me on the classroom platform, and hopefully we'll get… Cool. Okay. We got somewhere with this. Yes. Great. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, everybody. Have a good week. I'm going to post the comments and go.