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How to buy/own/mint one millilitre of the ocean from the South China Sea? (guided by such a speculative question that takes the figurative and pirated material— the South China Sea as our object of study)

tags: geopolitics,FLOSS, commons, ownership, transaction, water, queering

Image credit: Pete

2.1 👋Who are we (subject position)?

• Winnie (HK🇭🇰) & Tzutung (TW🇹🇼)
  • background
  • why the Taiwan and Hong Kong situations bring us together and do Forkonomy()?

2.3 Context - why South China Sea?

boundaries are constructed only in relation to land: three-mile zone and the two 12 miles international boundaries follow the coast line (UNCLOS 10 December 1982).

2.3.1 South China Sea Politics

Why choosing South China Sea as a figurative and pirated object (of study) to think about forkonomy, digital commons and piracy?

• Geopolitical site & colonial power (not only about the sea but natural resources e.g huge oil and gas reserves, economic trade, international relations, space, rights/power struggles)
  • the sea gives an enormous trade value, military value, and world power.
• Indigenous territory issues (land/Sea/rights/ownership/contract)
• Buying/Owning (contract/licensing)
• Commoning (beyond privatized and state-owned property)
  • resource for the communities
  • grassroots
  • code of conduct: how to operate in a fair, open, diverse, and more equal fashion

2.4 Workshop - ver 1 in Taiwan

the note for deciding the sea water average price

2.4 Workshop - ver 1 in Taiwan

the ownership style of the South China Sea water

2.4 Workshop - ver 1 in Taiwan

the decided price for 1ml of the South China Sea water is 1.61 NTD = 0.047 euro

2.5 Exhibition - ver 2 in Taiwan

(https://hackmd.io/@siusoon/forkonomy_ver2)

What does it mean by mining and co-owning one millilitre of the ocean from the South China Sea (beyond Taiwan context)?

• NFT: Based upon ver 1's agreed price and co-owned type
  • decentralized network and protocols
  • selling 1 millilitre of water (ownership via contract)
  • contract (EN, CN, Code)
  • unlimited edition (vs limited edition) -> unlimited water owners
  • challenge the notion of privatized assets in the capitalistic economy

2.6 Workshop - ver 3 in South Korea

what is our mutual connection with the sea?

The expansion of our committee 👈

2.4 Workshop - ver 4 in Graz

Rundown 𓆡🌊🐬 🐳𓆝𓆟𓆜𓆛𓆞🌊🦈🐡🐟🐠

2.5 Introduction (10 mins)

What's your name and pronoun?
Why you want to join this workshop?
What's your relation with the Sea?
30 sec / person

3 Forkonomy() Meditation Guide (20 mins)

play the audio guide

BREAK (15 mins)

4.1 Brief Recap Military Strategy (10 mins)

How did you feel about the meditation?
What have you heard just now?
30 sec / person

4.2 Introducing Military Aggression/Strategy

Since 2009, China has advanced its territorial claims in this region through a variety of tactics—such as reclaiming land, militarizing islands it controls, and using legal arguments and diplomatic influence—without triggering a serious confrontation with the United States or causing a regional backlash.

ref: https://www.cfr.org/report/military-confrontation-south-china-sea

1. Establishing additional territories
2. Harrassing
3. Disinformation and Fake narration
4. Enhancing military equipments and economic alliances

4.2.1 Establishing additional territories

narration and mapping:

• creation of 2 new municipal districts & building artificial islands (governing the Paracel and Spratly islands)
• declare an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) around the Spratly island
  • Building airports, stores and military infrastructure on the islands
• The Nine-dash line: as a means of coercing other competing claimants to accept these Beijing-mandated boundaries.

ref image: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-u-s-and-chinas-nine-dash-line-ending-the-ambiguity/; https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/china/2015/12/151215_special_south_china_sea_islands; https://amti.csis.org/paracels-beijings-other-buildup/

4.2.1 cont'

radio message:

from China: "China has sovereignty over the Spratly islands, as well as surrounding maritime areas. Stay away immediately to avoid misjudgment"

from US (pilot): "I am a sovereign immune United States naval aircraft conducting lawful military activities beyond the national airspace of any coastal state […] Exercising these rights is guaranteed by international law and I am operating with due regard to the rights and duties of all states"

ref: https://amti.csis.org/paracels-beijings-other-buildup/

4.2.2 Harrassing

From Military airforce to oil, gas platform & fishing area harrassmenet

4.2.2 Harrassing

The timing and the frequency of the harrassment

4.2.3 Disinformation and Fake

Referecing literatures, archiological evidence as well as blurring the history between ROC and PRC to claim that China is the earliest country that had found and use the South China Sea:

4.2.3 Disinformation and Fake

Information Warfare and Perception Management

ref:https://www.thesouthchinasea.org.cn/

4.2.4 Enhancing military equipments and economic alliances

• Naval Modernization
• Air Defense and Anti-Ship Systems
• Building strategic partnerships: as of 2022, China has established 110 strategic partnerships

ref: https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/naval-news/naval-news-archive/2020/august/8808-china-naval-modernization-becomes-top-focus-of-us-navy-plans.html; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13691481221127571

4.3 To buy or not to buy? (20 mins)

digraph G {

"Forkonomy()" -> "to buy";
"Forkonomy()" -> "not to buy";

"to buy" -> "Preperation Comitee" -> "Co-decide\n the price and management protocol" ->"other";

"not to buy" -> "Pour back your water" -> "other"; 

"other" -> "collective action?";
}

4.5 Additional response: Drawing and Sharing (15-20 mins)

What forms of collective/activist/individual/artistic actions that you want to respond to the military aggression?

5. Concluding …

The South China Sea Cooperative Preparation committee: https://hackmd.io/@forkonomy/ContractOwnerPage

• How to link the preperation commitee members?
• How to manage this organization?
• What agency do co-owners have?
• How would you document your voice?
• What platform should we use?

Unfinished

🙏Thank you for supporting the project🙏

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