Open Knowledge Is Digital Sovereignty
Why the Freedom to Understand, Verify and Share Is Essential to Life in the Digital Age
My illustration entitled "The Sovereign Knowledge Toolkit" - I open an enormous illuminated case containing the t...
Against Digital Absolutism: Why Cypherpunkism Is Not Anti-State or Anti-Corporation
My illustration entitled: "The Shield Against Absolutism" - I raise a luminous shield between citizens and two corrupted manifestations of power: an all-seeing surveillance state and an exploitative corpora...
The Cypherpunkism FAQ: Twenty Objections Answered
My illustration entitled: "The Hydra of Misconceptions" - I confront a twenty-headed mechanical hydra whose heads symbolize recurring misconceptions: “privacy protects criminals,” “decentralization creates ...
The Cypherpunkist Test: Who Does the Technology Empower?
My illustration entitled: "The Cypherpunkist’s Litmus Test" - I place different technologies—AI, digital currency, social platforms, biometrics and brain–computer interfaces—into a luminous testing apparatu...
The Right to Exit in Digital Civilization
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...
Decentralization Is a Check on Power
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
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
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...