Episode 134: Deep Dive | Dismantling Power While Keeping the Lights On

How can societies dismantle harmful power while keeping water, energy and other essential services dependable? This Deep Dive explores Bichara Sahely’s framework for separating life-enabling functions from their controllers, connecting transition protection, civil commons, living coordination and safeguards that keep successors answerable and replaceable. Read More

Preserving Life, Transforming Power: Civil Commons, Living Coordination, and the Conditions of Corrigible Transition

How can societies transform harmful institutions without disrupting the essential services on which people depend? This academic paper proposes a framework for protecting life-enabling functions while making those who control them accountable and replaceable. It connects civil commons, living coordination and binding transition agreements with safeguards against successor capture.

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