Issue 1/Editorial

Purpose

The parallel society already exists. It is a food bank in Ibadan, a node running behind a hotel router in Prague, a permissionless school under a tree in Delhi, activists in Benin City raising money to pay for a member's health treatment, and a developer in Los Angeles compiling a messaging node from source.

Local Area Network is the record where these smaller stories are remembered, and the bigger story told. From the many, one.

Function

LAN is the Logos movement's record of itself: what our activists are building, who they are helping, what they are running, what they are inspired by, and what they are learning on the way. It functions as a mirror: we collect the best of these experiences to create a shared image of ourselves.

A piece is fit for LAN if it:

Highlights a win, a lesson, or a story from a Logos Circle, its activists or community.
Showcases an improvement, update or novel use of Logos technology.
Explains how relevant systems work: both those we are building and those we are exiting.
Is a relevant development in the categories of parallel infrastructure, economy, education, action, or culture.
Is on the cultural edge of technology, the internet, politics and philosophy.

Contribution is open through action, so get noticed. Other submissions, tips and ideas can be sent to lan@logos.co

From the Editors

This publication takes direct inspiration from the seminal Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand. Published between 1968 and 1972, it was a highly functional access-to-tools guide to empower individual autonomy in the face of big government, big business and other orthodoxies.

The WEC brought together co-curated products and ideas by and for a varied mix of innovators and iconoclasts — computer hackers, hippies, alternative designers, architects, builders and environmentalists who shared a countercultural view of learning, building, organizing and thinking.

This publication shares the same spirit: from a diverse crowd living in different geographies and working in different fields, a common vision emerges.