"Anarchist thinker Hakim Bey believed that social spaces of freedom were ephemeral by nature. While a revolution may kick off a period of radical possibility, sooner or later the new forms of social organization will calcify into control. In his theoretical writings of the early ’90s on “temporary autonomous zones,” he speculated that cyberspace could provide “logistical support” for such zones; he thought it could resolve the problem of duration by compacting time and space through remote connection. Three decades later, anarchists, libertarians, and other anti-establishment types are hoping the blockchain and other tools developed in a similar spirit will offer even more resilient solutions for maintaining autonomy. Urbit supports peer-to-peer connections for an internet outside corporate control. Metaverses like Decentraland sell virtual land as NFTs that holders can use as they will. Balaji Srinivasan’s controversial but influential book The Network State (2022) imagines protocols that would make a citizenry as easy to join or leave as a server. How is this configuration of technologies, ideologies, and practices adapting—or displacing—existing concepts of land, ownership, and statehood? How much of our social life and the systems that govern it will be virtual, and how will they intersect with embodied experience?"