Seasons is a philosophy written in 2021 by seasonsDAO members. The philosophy is a conceptual framework of the network age of technology and a blueprint for creative renaissance led by a new humanism. The philosophy is also a foundation for ongoing creative work around a new curation praxis, a new creative school, and a new creative label. The philosophy is presented in a 10 pt summary below, but can be found in full here.

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1. “own your narrative”

Ethereum enables the replacement of the corporation as primary means of cultural production & ownership with the network, transforming culture as an asset class. This stands to disaggregate attention & equity from TAM valuation into ecosystems- each with its own philosophy, agenda, & value system. These irl/digital networks represent the future of value, identity, and communications.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/the-new-internet-bnpdd9ixywu

2. “hell knows no limits”

Seasons rejects the equation of limitlessness with freedom. Seasons rejects the vulgarity of monopoly as societal conclusion, enabled by the primacy of fiat as universal force. Seasons rejects "mass" culture that monopolizes mediums of value, communication, and identity.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/limits-compose-life

3. “entropy”

Seasons rejects the "big bang" scientific consensus that orients man “existentially” & sees nature governed by entropy. The orientation of modern society towards highly developed ego where randomness of existence requires one to confer meaning in a meaningless world. The division of one's life from nature's life. This division leads to abstraction, a mode of conquest.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/modernity-know-thyself

4. “complexity”

Seasons asserts that nature is governed by accelerating complexity. The fractal nature of the universe is that "one thing always leads to another".  Nature always seeks to densify connection: greater complexity of interrelation, balance & form - of which man is the quintessence. Life succeeds by cohesive instincts, these anchor tribal societies that ceremonialize ego death & pursue meaning discovery.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/nature-is-a-state-of-becoming

5. “most powerful person is the storyteller”

The limits of our language are the limits of our world. We live within & govern by stories. These stories develop the associational landscape we call culture. To rebirth society ,we must tell new stories by new languages. Seasons aspires to be the language for stories that return art to life, and life to vital context.

6. “everything grows in seasons”

Seasons are natures circles for life. The vital laws enclose all.  Similarly, our human & earthly limits are not confinements but inducements to elaboration & elegance, to fullness of relationship & meaning. Brute force is not sovereign in this world, limits are. Inumerable blind forces in the world are made to balance with each other, and brought to form a united whole by a cohesive order which we call beauty. Alignment is life’s blueprint, the sovereign form of life is a circle.

7. “To be creative is only to have health”

Nature's standard of health is the supreme creative standard, the unified “law” of creation. An art does not propose to enlarge itself by limitless extension, but to enrich itself within accepted bounds. By embracing limits artists achieve elaborations of pattern, of sustaining relationships of parts with one another and with the whole, that may be astonishingly complex. Composition is the cultural practice that unifies art & life, “to compose” is both to heal and create.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/to-be-creative-is-only-to-have-health

8.  “vital culture”

Embracing our limits & dependencies reclaims agency for the healing & damage of our vital contexts, since all life may be described by healing or damage. Symbols created by meaning discovery in vital contexts symbolize & manifest vital culture. Vital contexts are one’s own soul, others, & the world. Vital culture engenders ripeness: the highest state of healing, creativity & luxury by the highest form of imagination - local adaptation.

9.  “networks are ecosystems”

The decentralized network is the technological expression of natures medium for culture - ecosystem. Similar to a new building, vital culture may be developed by communities leveraging decentralized network tech to produce memetic cultural ecosystems. Vital culture's premium on meaning, luxury & healing will disaggregate equity from the "mass" attention economy, transforming everything downstream from culture- namely economies & environments.

10.“the best stories become environments”

Network culture is a new development typology. New forms of investment will align to transform stories into cultures & cultures into environments. Seasons proposes the possibility for a new economy molded by vital culture to take root, thriving by its superior utilization of human attention & potential.  Seasons proposes to become the narrative & standard for the development of new vital cultures and new vital worlds.

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Seasons is a philosophy written in 2021 by seasonsDAO members. The philosophy is a conceptual framework of the network age of technology and a blueprint for creative renaissance led by a new humanism. The philosophy is also a foundation for ongoing creative work around a new curation praxis, a new creative school, and a new creative label. The philosophy is presented in a 10 pt summary below, but can be found in full here.

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1. “own your narrative”

Ethereum enables the replacement of the corporation as primary means of cultural production & ownership with the network, transforming culture as an asset class. This stands to disaggregate attention & equity from TAM valuation into ecosystems- each with its own philosophy, agenda, & value system. These irl/digital networks represent the future of value, identity, and communications.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/the-new-internet-bnpdd9ixywu

2. “hell knows no limits”

Seasons rejects the equation of limitlessness with freedom. Seasons rejects the vulgarity of monopoly as societal conclusion, enabled by the primacy of fiat as universal force. Seasons rejects "mass" culture that monopolizes mediums of value, communication, and identity.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/limits-compose-life

3. “entropy”

Seasons rejects the "big bang" scientific consensus that orients man “existentially” & sees nature governed by entropy. The orientation of modern society towards highly developed ego where randomness of existence requires one to confer meaning in a meaningless world. The division of one's life from nature's life. This division leads to abstraction, a mode of conquest.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/modernity-know-thyself

4. “complexity”

Seasons asserts that nature is governed by accelerating complexity. The fractal nature of the universe is that "one thing always leads to another".  Nature always seeks to densify connection: greater complexity of interrelation, balance & form - of which man is the quintessence. Life succeeds by cohesive instincts, these anchor tribal societies that ceremonialize ego death & pursue meaning discovery.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/nature-is-a-state-of-becoming

5. “most powerful person is the storyteller”

The limits of our language are the limits of our world. We live within & govern by stories. These stories develop the associational landscape we call culture. To rebirth society ,we must tell new stories by new languages. Seasons aspires to be the language for stories that return art to life, and life to vital context.

6. “everything grows in seasons”

Seasons are natures circles for life. The vital laws enclose all.  Similarly, our human & earthly limits are not confinements but inducements to elaboration & elegance, to fullness of relationship & meaning. Brute force is not sovereign in this world, limits are. Inumerable blind forces in the world are made to balance with each other, and brought to form a united whole by a cohesive order which we call beauty. Alignment is life’s blueprint, the sovereign form of life is a circle.

7. “To be creative is only to have health”

Nature's standard of health is the supreme creative standard, the unified “law” of creation. An art does not propose to enlarge itself by limitless extension, but to enrich itself within accepted bounds. By embracing limits artists achieve elaborations of pattern, of sustaining relationships of parts with one another and with the whole, that may be astonishingly complex. Composition is the cultural practice that unifies art & life, “to compose” is both to heal and create.

https://www.are.na/victor-alexander/to-be-creative-is-only-to-have-health

8.  “vital culture”

Embracing our limits & dependencies reclaims agency for the healing & damage of our vital contexts, since all life may be described by healing or damage. Symbols created by meaning discovery in vital contexts symbolize & manifest vital culture. Vital contexts are one’s own soul, others, & the world. Vital culture engenders ripeness: the highest state of healing, creativity & luxury by the highest form of imagination - local adaptation.

9.  “networks are ecosystems”

The decentralized network is the technological expression of natures medium for culture - ecosystem. Similar to a new building, vital culture may be developed by communities leveraging decentralized network tech to produce memetic cultural ecosystems. Vital culture's premium on meaning, luxury & healing will disaggregate equity from the "mass" attention economy, transforming everything downstream from culture- namely economies & environments.

10.“the best stories become environments”

Network culture is a new development typology. New forms of investment will align to transform stories into cultures & cultures into environments. Seasons proposes the possibility for a new economy molded by vital culture to take root, thriving by its superior utilization of human attention & potential.  Seasons proposes to become the narrative & standard for the development of new vital cultures and new vital worlds.

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