A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements?

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A Decentralized More-than-Human World, or, How Can Slime Molds Build Social Movements?

In a time of ecological and social crises, designing new institutions is crucial for meeting future challenges. Institutions emerge from the imaginations of individuals, moving into social movements and crystallizing in legal structures. As present movements seek to develop tomorrow’s governances, they turn to decentralized structures: distributed networks with little hierarchy, characterized by a diversity of actors and dynamics. While movement…