Life can flourish on rotting logs, as brown’s fungi remind us. If nation-state democracy is rotting, then we might allow ourselves to imagine its erosion not solely as a loss. Rot is metabolism, an act of digestion into something else. If ­democracy is not a static organism so much as an evolving symbiosis, then we can allow ourselves to search for more of the possible feedback loops that we could sense and act on.

— Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider, Darija Medic (5%)