People sometimes say no one saw it coming, but no, wrong: they did. “It was that ocean heat that caused the First Pulse to pulse, and later brought on the second one. Also sky living in skyvillages that used the drowned cities as mooring towers and festival exchange points containerclippers and townships as floating islands art-not-work, the city regarded as a giant collaborative artwork blue greens, amphibiguity, heterogeneticity, horizontalization, deoligarchification also free open universities, free trade schools, and free art schools.” Hegemony had drowned, so in the years after the flooding there was a proliferation of cooperatives, neighborhood associations, communes, squats, barter, alternative currencies, gift economies, solar usufruct, fishing village cultures, mondragons, unions, Davy’s locker freemasonries, anarchist blather, and submarine technoculture, including aeration and aquafarming. And a lot of them were interested in trying something different, including which authorities they gave their consent to be governed by. Denizens of the deep, citizens of the shallows.
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