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From Citizen to Cytizen. How to Escape from Cyberstates?

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  • Guido JM Verstraeten
  • Willem W Verstraeten

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The Modern Western state is characterized by unmediated individual access to wellness, health, safety and liberal human rights. The Newtonian conception of space and time makes formal room for a discursive public area with the citizen and the public institutes in the margin, while participation and ethical responsibility is a prejudice of good citizenship. It is a necessary condition of consistency and coherence of the nation. To date, global migration and multiculturalism threaten those necessary basic conditions of Western states´ political equilibrium. To challenge the actual global phenomena national states transform into virtual places of fear dominated by cybernetics, digital bureaucracy while citizen’s identity is mirrored by the efficiency and unisexual beauty ideal of cyborgs. The substantive conception of technology is government’s tool box to realize the cyberstate while citizen reduce to “cytizen”. In order to escape from this global grey, we propose a different conception of space and time namely the Leibnizian conception of pluralistic independent participating worlds. Moreover, we modify Leopold’s Land-Ethics by introducing the transpersonal identification claim of Warwick Fox inside the common Land so-called eco-homeland while the care for the foreigner serves as paradigmatic core attitude to all participants of the eco-homeland. So we constitute a common eco-refuge, similar to the ideas of Bookchin´s eco- anarchistic ideas but avoiding his dialectic ideal conception of the Land and its participants.

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  • Guido JM Verstraeten & Willem W Verstraeten, 2018. "From Citizen to Cytizen. How to Escape from Cyberstates?," International Journal of Social Science Studies, Redfame publishing, vol. 6(1), pages 7-17, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:rfa:journl:v:6:y:2018:i:1:p:7-17
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    1. Guido J.M. Verstraeten & Willem W. Verstraeten, 2019. "Eco-Development Response to Climate Change and the Isostatic Uplift of Southwestern Finland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-14, November.

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    Keywords

    modern nation; oikophobia; cytizen; cyberstate; Homeland-Anarchism;
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    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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