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Ad / IT-Fortress Attention, leading programmers, IT-experts and engineers from India, China, Russia, Vietnam, Ukraine, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe. We need your help to build a failsafe IT hub on the Principality of Sealand in service of international data-piracy requirements. We need your expertise to outsource costly and secret IT-projects to Sealand. Transfer your electronic piracy activities efficiently to a data fortress just milliseconds from London and rejoice in the privacy of our secret business haven while sipping from your cup of Earl Grey. That’s Sealand – the bare act of sovereign independence just on the border of the civilized world. Tyranny and anarchy merged together on board of the world’s one and only privatized data centre outside of jurisdiction. To our management team, cyberpolicy and cyberpiracy are Siamese twins, grown up together with the development of network society.
Question: should they have grown up in public?
Answer: No. Piracy needs are private affairs – and our grey zone is prepared to handle them. Your expertise will be rewarded in cash. Interested? Let’s do business in our recently refurnished Sovereignty Lounge. And remember: you didn’t read this.
(A selection of ten different proposals seeks to develop a new political ideology for Sealand that will, physically as well as virtually, confidently invest in its sovereign position. Connected through its ‘data haven’, Sealand becomes Mainport to Imagination. Sealand’s non-agenda / non-identity in terms of its socio-political, cultural and fictional values makes it hard to visualize what Sealand can become or could mean for its audience. The proposals open up a new international context in which Sealand can be imagined to operate. In fact, they only emphasize what Sealand has always been: an Ersatz-Nation for the internet (Ersatz – substitute). The proposals create fictive models and vast collections of associative meanings. Sealand exists in multiple settings and fictional ‘realties’ that make it illegible to be branded as a country; it rather disrupts our day-to-day reality. It exists beyond the binary form of good – bad. The ambiguity and contradiction of the different target groups emphasise that Sealand is in fact lacking its own ideology. In the end, all these possible, but different scenarios could create a momentum of the absurd in Sealand.)
Metahaven 2004
Question: should they have grown up in public?
Answer: No. Piracy needs are private affairs – and our grey zone is prepared to handle them. Your expertise will be rewarded in cash. Interested? Let’s do business in our recently refurnished Sovereignty Lounge. And remember: you didn’t read this.
(A selection of ten different proposals seeks to develop a new political ideology for Sealand that will, physically as well as virtually, confidently invest in its sovereign position. Connected through its ‘data haven’, Sealand becomes Mainport to Imagination. Sealand’s non-agenda / non-identity in terms of its socio-political, cultural and fictional values makes it hard to visualize what Sealand can become or could mean for its audience. The proposals open up a new international context in which Sealand can be imagined to operate. In fact, they only emphasize what Sealand has always been: an Ersatz-Nation for the internet (Ersatz – substitute). The proposals create fictive models and vast collections of associative meanings. Sealand exists in multiple settings and fictional ‘realties’ that make it illegible to be branded as a country; it rather disrupts our day-to-day reality. It exists beyond the binary form of good – bad. The ambiguity and contradiction of the different target groups emphasise that Sealand is in fact lacking its own ideology. In the end, all these possible, but different scenarios could create a momentum of the absurd in Sealand.)
Metahaven 2004
