Quickstart
Preamble
The Network State in One Sentence
The Network State in One Image
The Network State in One Thousand Words
The Network State in One Essay
History as Trajectory
Prologue
Microhistory and Macrohistory
Political Power and Technological Truth
God, State, Network
People of God, People of the State, People of the Network
If the News is Fake, Imagine History
Fragmentation, Frontier, Fourth Turning, Future Is Our Past
Left is the New Right is the New Left
The One Commandment
The Tripolar Moment
NYT, CCP, BTC
The Dated and the Timeless
A Bipolar America and a Tripolar Triangle
Moral Power, Martial Power, Money Power
Submission, Sympathy, Sovereignty
Conflicts and Alliances
Decentralization, Recentralization
The Possible Futures
Sociopolitical Axes
Technoeconomic Axes
Foreseeable Futures
American Anarchy, Chinese Control, International Intermediate
Victory Conditions and Surprise Endings
Towards a Recentralized Center
From Nation States to Network States
Why Now?
On Nation States
On Network States
Appendix
Acknowledgments
About 1729
Footnotes