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Ch5: Cultivating governable spaces. Relies heavily on feminist theory and countering paternalism of feudalism and hierarchy. Examples of coops, exit to community, citizen assemblies, participatory budgeting, Decidim, German codetermination, etc etc. These are seeds that show how we could bring citizen governance to online life. "Self-governance is not a solution; it is a practice"

Ch4: Designing "governance stacks" to refuse the colonialism of implicit feudalism. "Governable stacks are confrontations." Designing user control into apps, even at a small scale. Covers many experiments. May First Movement Tech & Policykit mentioned! 4 design goals for building self-governing modular systems, plus "archaeology" which is about connecting new gov designs to those of the past.

Ch3: using case studies of Restorative Justice and Cryptoeconomics to show expanded political imaginaries. In order to have an accountable social space, we need to "shift from scalability to subsidiarity." He does offer criticisms, but both cases demonstrate new ways for local autonomy that the reigning social infrastructure won't allow.

Ch2: Examination of the California Ideology, its "politics of no politics", frontierism and homesteading logic, and "faithless religion of exit." Stands to reason the tech does not teach political skills. Contrasts with homeplaces, Politics of everyday life, consensus building and basically microsolidarity.

Ch1: A history of online spaces from the old BBSs to modern platforms, and how their design leads to "implicit feudalism" taking away voice and leaving exit as the only option for users. From BDFLs to all powerful mods: there is little to no democratic infra for communities to improve. This is the core problem this book will tackle. The chapter ends with some positive cases (Wikipedia, Debian, Python).

Fun book! I am glad there are a whole bunch in this series. Looking forward to the next one.