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The Right to Exit in Digital Civilization

November 1, 2017

My illustration entitled: "The Lifeboat from the Centralized Ark" - a gigantic corporate digital vessel begins transforming into a surveillance machine. Me, and other citizens escape aboard smaller decentra...

The Evolution of Sovereignty: From Information Privacy to Cognitive Freedom

October 10, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Four Gates of Freedom" - I walks through four monumental gates labelled DATA, IDENTITY, BODY and MIND. The final gate opens into a vast blue-and-gold horizon shaped like a hum...

The Rights and Responsibilities of the Cypherpunkist

August 8, 2016

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "The Cypherpunkist’s Shield and Key" - Herbert carries a luminous shield protecting individual rights while holding a cryptographic key that must be used responsibly. The shield di...

Decentralization Is a Check on Power

October 26, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

Why Digital Systems Must Prevent Unnecessary Concentrations of Authority My illustration entitled "The Key Against the Leviathan" - A colossal mechanical leviathan formed from surveillance cameras, fin...

The Architecture of Power: A Cypherpunkist Theory of Technology

June 22, 2015

Opinion, Visual Arts

My illustration entitled: "Rebuilding the Architecture of Power" - I use a glowing cryptographic hammer to dismantle a centralized technological fortress. Around me, citizens rebuild its components into an ...

A Genealogy of Cypherpunkism

October 21, 2014

Opinion, Visual Arts

From Cryptography and Distributed Networks to a Philosophy of Digital Sovereignty My illustration entitled: "The Ancestral Hall of Ideas" - I walk through a grand hall containing statues and illuminate...

Digital Sovereignty: A Formal Definition

December 10, 2013

Opinion, Visual Arts

The Individual’s Authority Within Technological Civilization My illustration entitled: "The Sovereign Digital Fortress" - I stand at the entrance of a magnificent futuristic fortress protected by crypt...

Metadata Is Power

July 25, 2013

Opinion, Visual Arts

Why Protecting the Contents of a Message Is No Longer Enough My illustration entitled: "The Digital Breadcrumb Trail" - I walk through a dark futuristic city, unknowingly leaving glowing footprints beh...

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