undernet.earth
Connecting the ethereal noosphere to grounded emergent movements of localized resilience
The METACELIUM
A living network that transmorphs the ethereal noosphere into grounded, emergent movements. Like mycelium beneath the forest floor, METACELIUM connects disparate nodes of resistance and resilience into a coherent—yet incoherent to the system—web of mutual aid.
Distributed Intelligence
No central authority, no single point of failure. Intelligence emerges from the connections between nodes, adapting faster than any system can capture.
Transmorph & Adapt
Like fungi breaking down dead matter, we compost capitalism's zombie institutions, transforming extractive systems into nutrients for regenerative futures.
Grounded Emergence
From the ethereal to the earthly. Ideas become actions, networks become communities, and the noosphere roots itself in soil, lichen, and mycelium.
The layer∅ Foundation
Mushrooms are the layer∅ organisms—the foundational stratum of trophic energy flows in ecological systems. They operate at the base layer, decomposing and transforming, channeling energy through networks of life. The layer∅ society mirrors this ecological role: a foundational infrastructure that nourishes and connects, ever-present yet often invisible, operating beneath the extractive layers of conventional systems.
The Union of Punks
Solar meets lunar in the rich soil beneath our feet. The synthesis of high-tech optimism and low-tech resilience births new forms of resistance.
Solarpunk
Renewable energy, technological optimism, and the belief that we can build a sustainable future through innovation and cooperation.
Lunarpunk
Privacy, anonymity, and the shadows. Building systems that resist surveillance and control, staying incoherent to the panopticon.
Soilpunk
Grounded in the earth, building from the bottom up. Composting the old to nourish the new, recognizing that all growth begins in the soil.
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- →Lichenpunk: Symbiotic relationships, mutual aid networks
- →Mycopunk: Decomposition and regeneration, network intelligence
- →layer∅ organisms: Fungi as the foundational trophic layer
"We are the layer∅ organisms—the fungi breaking down the dead wood of capitalism, the lichen colonizing the ruins, the mycelium connecting the forest floor at the foundational stratum of energy flow."
Building Underground
The most resilient networks grow beneath the surface, invisible to extractive systems, adapting faster than they can be captured or commodified.
Staying Incoherent
Resist legibility. When systems can't read you, they can't capture you. Embrace the glitch, the noise, the spaces between categories.
Rapid Adaptation
Like mycelium responding to environmental changes, we evolve faster than extractive systems can adapt. Fluidity is resistance.
Emergent Resilience
Strength through diversity and connection. No single point of failure, no central authority to corrupt or capture.
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→ Build in the margins
Where surveillance is weak and control is loose
→ Connect underground
Invisible networks that nourish resistance
→ Embrace illegibility
What can't be measured can't be managed
→ Adapt continuously
Evolution as strategy, mutation as tactic
→ Operate at layer∅
Like mushrooms in trophic flows, be the foundational infrastructure that transforms energy and nourishes the ecosystem—ever-present, essential, yet invisible to extractive eyes
Self-Provisioned Infrastructure
Data sovereignty begins with infrastructure sovereignty. Bring the cloud back down to earth through local fog computing and community-owned networks.
Fog Computing: zk-edge
Fully metadata encrypted zero-knowledge cosmo-local home routers running on custom compute hardware called zk-edge. The cloud was always someone else's computer—fog computing brings computation back to the edge, to the local, to the community.
Mist Computing: The Mobile Mist
Mobile interconnectivity that's local-first and offline-connection friendly. The mobile mist enables peer-to-peer collaboration that adapts to unstable networks, keeping communities connected even when the grid fails.
Data Sovereignty
Your data, your rules. Community data, community governance. No extraction, no surveillance capitalism, no selling your digital exhaust to the highest bidder.
Community Infrastructure
Mesh networks, community servers, cooperative hosting. Infrastructure as commons, maintained by those who use it, governed by those who depend on it.
Local Empowerment
Technical literacy as liberation. Communities that can provision their own infrastructure are communities that can't be controlled by tech monopolies.
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The Mycelial Network
Like mycelium connecting trees in a forest, these projects form an underground network of regenerative resistance. Explore the nodes in the METACELIUM.
MycoFi
Mycelial finance and permaculture currencies. Economic systems inspired by fungal networks, built on cooperation and mutual aid.
Compost Capitalism
Breaking down extractive systems to nourish regenerative ones. Decomposing zombie institutions into nutrients for new growth.
Post-Appitalism
Beyond the app economy. Building digital tools that serve communities, not shareholders. De-siloification and collective ownership.
"The network is the organism. The organism is the network. We are all nodes in the METACELIUM."