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kept the newsletter short this week, since the story on seasteading is long-ish, but i wanted to link to some books that i've found useful or interesting when it comes to frontiers and utopia https://mailchi.mp/f34997500464/apocalypse-playground-4877641?e=f9abec1208
"The End of the Myth" by @GregGrandin helped me clarify what really happened in the nineteenth century
Arg meant to link this: https://bookshop.org/books/the-end-of-the-myth-from-the-frontier-to-the-border-wall-in-the-mind-of-america/9781250214850
i talked in the story about "nonstate spaces," which i find an interesting counterpoint to frontier spaces. that's an idea from James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State" https://bookshop.org/books/seeing-like-a-state-how-certain-schemes-to-improve-the-human-condition-have-failed/9780300246759
"Utopia Drive" by Erik Reece has an interesting classification of utopian ideas -- whether they're focused on solitude or solidarity, on escaping the world or regenerating it https://bookshop.org/books/utopia-drive-a-road-trip-through-america-s-most-radical-idaa/9780374537012
for an excellent critical examination of seasteading and libertarianism, see this essay by @raycraib https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/24/egotopia/
and i forgot this one in the newsletter, but "Outlaw Ocean" by @ian_urbina offers a good overview of Sealand, Women on Waves, and much, much more https://bookshop.org/books/the-outlaw-ocean-journeys-across-the-last-untamed-frontier/9781101972373
