Spatial futures of the nation-state.
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Unregulated subterranea: “As Welkom’s mining industry collapsed, in the nineteen-nineties, a dystopian criminal economy emerged in its place, with thousands of men entering the abandoned tunnels and using rudimentary tools to dig for the leftover ore.” newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
A couple time-zone links... (1/2) The city & the city, time-zone edition: “People in Lebanon have woken up in two rival time zones, amid a row between political and religious authorities over when clocks should go forward.” bbc.com/news/world-middle-ea…
(2/2) Offworld time-zone design. “The main objective of establishing a universal timekeeping system for the moon... is to streamline contact among the various countries and entities, public and private, that are coordinating trips to and around the moon.” nytimes.com/2023/03/07/scien…
“Chinese leadership has long believed it was the victim of bad Russian-brokered treaties that led to them losing [a] lot of land—in Manchuria, modern-day Mongolia, and Siberia... And the Chinese have never forgotten any of it.” thesgnl.com/2023/04/china-ru…
Catching up on some recent links... “By the end of the century, [thawing permafrost] threatens to destabilize facilities at more than 2,000 industrial sites, such as mines and pipelines, and further compromise more than 5,000 already contaminated areas.” sciencenews.org/article/perm…
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America is now two countries. One is urban, diverse and growing. The other is in charge, writes @michelleinbklyn nyti.ms/2fulXJi
Blockchain geopolitics: an Arctic crypto-currency “whose value increases with the latitude at which it is used.” sever.network
“The great historical question is what comes next—return to nationalism or leap toward responsive new institutions?” huff.to/29dBSHu
“Separated from American governments + bureaucracies by immense wilderness, Hyder has no property taxes or police.” nyti.ms/29HXHvR
China's new national security doctrine: defense "in space, on seabeds and at the poles": nyti.ms/1H4Jcgk | via @peterwsinger
Strategic real estate purchases as territorial war by other means—Russians buy property near Finnish military bases: fam.ag/1I2quIz
Petition "demanding the north of England break away from the 'London-centric south' and join a new Scotland": bit.ly/1e3j6AI
Citizenship for sale. Allowing "wealthy foreigners to buy residency cards through... immigrant investor programs": bloom.bg/1BkySej
A "radical vision of the urban future might be the logistical tool that helps humankind achieve a foothold on Mars": bit.ly/1F3uOX9
Digital nation-states. "Estonia is working out how to back up the country, in case it is attacked by Russia": econ.st/1AdW4u1
Group claims "that Texas never legally became part of the U.S. and remains a separate nation": nyti.ms/18vP6tN
The UK "needs an Arctic ambassador": bit.ly/1CbEHAT | The polar region as geopolitical actor (and spatio-territorial prize).
Closing the border: "two northern towns that operate as one will soon be cut off from each other": bit.ly/1EBlS9S