BlockScience Founder Michael Zargham unpacks the concept of "Autonomy" drawing a distinction between political and functional autonomy. Drawing from "Chapter 5: Effective Freedom and Collective Autonomy" the book "Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical politics", Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model and his experience designing crypto economic systems, Zargham contextualizes the interactions between an individual and a collective - primarily in the context of Web3 systems to illustrate four subsets of autonomy: individual, collective, tactical and strategic.

You can find the corresponding HackMD notes here:
https://hackmd.io/JniD_JyiTaSrlUG8H8A...

Read more on Autonomy from BlockScience Researcher Kelsie Nabben:
https://kelsienabben.substack.com/p/e...

References:
Anarchist Cybernetics
https://policypress.universitypresssc...
Viable Systems Model (Beer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_...

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