Im Austin (they/them). This place is a loose container for writing around ecology, technology, gender, and culture as creative practice.
Ecological Institutions → Protocols to Grow Autonomous and Convivial Ecological Actors
Written by Austin Wade Smith, Executive Director of the Regen Foundation, in collaboration with the Earth Law Center and the Regen Network Development PBC. All illustrations credit of the author.This essay outlines tangible means by which we may evolve beyond advocacy for the living world into new patterns and processes of agency for non-human kin. How might an expanded understanding of the social enable non-humans to possess their own land titles and contracts, license their own data, compen...
Ecological Institutions → Protocols to Grow Autonomous and Convivial Ecological Actors
Written by Austin Wade Smith, Executive Director of the Regen Foundation, in collaboration with the Earth Law Center and the Regen Network Development PBC. All illustrations credit of the author.This essay outlines tangible means by which we may evolve beyond advocacy for the living world into new patterns and processes of agency for non-human kin. How might an expanded understanding of the social enable non-humans to possess their own land titles and contracts, license their own data, compen...
Commons Sense - The Social Life of Ecological ↔ Digital Linkages
This series is an initiative by the Regen Foundation, and is written by Austin Wade Smith. In it I explore salient challenges and opportunities in regenerative economics more broadly, and on the blockchain more specifically. Our goal is to bring capacity to a diverse public to be critically informed about the intersection of climate justice, social justice, and web3. We see this work as an essential prerequisite for communities to own and govern the revolutionary infrastructures which support...
Commons Sense - The Social Life of Ecological ↔ Digital Linkages
This series is an initiative by the Regen Foundation, and is written by Austin Wade Smith. In it I explore salient challenges and opportunities in regenerative economics more broadly, and on the blockchain more specifically. Our goal is to bring capacity to a diverse public to be critically informed about the intersection of climate justice, social justice, and web3. We see this work as an essential prerequisite for communities to own and govern the revolutionary infrastructures which support...
Undualing
This project is an exercise in collective imagination about a future where economic value is aligned to the ecological health of our planet, and what the systems might look like to make that future real. The first essay, Undualing, explores foundational assumptions on the nature of prosperity which perpetuate our era of mass extinction. Unlearning these assumptions introduces poignant technical and ethical questions to be explored in the subsequent essays, Commons Sense and Market in the Temp...
Undualing
This project is an exercise in collective imagination about a future where economic value is aligned to the ecological health of our planet, and what the systems might look like to make that future real. The first essay, Undualing, explores foundational assumptions on the nature of prosperity which perpetuate our era of mass extinction. Unlearning these assumptions introduces poignant technical and ethical questions to be explored in the subsequent essays, Commons Sense and Market in the Temp...
Queer Servers and Feral Webs
In the winter of 2021 I received an email from a colleague, introducing me to a friend who was looking to collaborate. After reading and reflecting on the contents of the email, I replied, stating I agreed to the project and that I was looking forward to getting started. At the end of my reply I signed off using my initials AWS, a moniker I often use rather than my given name Austin. A few days later I received a confused reply from my collaborator to be. Whether in sincerity or jest they add...
Queer Servers and Feral Webs
In the winter of 2021 I received an email from a colleague, introducing me to a friend who was looking to collaborate. After reading and reflecting on the contents of the email, I replied, stating I agreed to the project and that I was looking forward to getting started. At the end of my reply I signed off using my initials AWS, a moniker I often use rather than my given name Austin. A few days later I received a confused reply from my collaborator to be. Whether in sincerity or jest they add...
