05 / CONCEPT GUIDEVERONOCRACY

Concepts for understanding
Veronocracy.

Open a concept. Approach the question behind its definition. This guide offers a brief introduction to how these concepts are used within Veronocracy.

01

Platform sovereignty

Public debate, commerce and visibility shaped by the rules of platforms.

Who makes the rules, and who holds the rule-makers accountable?
02

Data colonialism

Our experiences becoming data, and data becoming economic and political power.

How much say do we have in the value generated from our lives?
03

Limbic media

Attention organised through emotions such as anger, fear and belonging.

Are we reflecting, or constantly reacting?
04

Habeas Data

Remaining an active subject in relation to information and judgments produced about us.

Can we challenge the story systems tell about us?
05

The commons

Knowledge, resources and digital spaces governed through shared participation.

Can we govern the world we share together?
06

Algorithmic belief

Systems organising visibility participating in what we find possible and credible.

Who decides whether an idea becomes visible?
07

Data sovereignty

The pursuit of a meaningful say over how data is collected, used and circulated.

When your data moves, does your agency move with it?
08

Homo conscientia

A person who recognises their conditions, questions them and helps build the future.

Can we move beyond the predictions made about us?
09

Threshold consciousness

Recognising that the order we are entering is unfinished and that we can participate in shaping it.

Is the future simply something that happens to us?

From a concept
to an argument.

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