Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State
Breaking the Contract: Digital Nomads and the State
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打破契约：数字游牧民族与国家
作者：
D. Cook
本文从民族志的角度探讨了数字游牧民如何调和他们对“自由”的承诺与他们与国家机构的关系。它分析了这些“全球公民”试图削弱与民族国家的联系，并在工作、公民身份和流动性方面挑战国家-公民关系的方式。从表面上看，数字游牧民似乎通过无国界的主体性或跨国企业的创建打破了“社会契约”。然而，在实践中，他们仍然直接或通过公司实体与多个国家机构纠缠在一起，以更接近他们热切渴望的“自由”。本文探讨了数字游牧民“选择退出”或“重新绘制”社会契约的尝试，并说明了想象中的社会契约与实际的国家-公民关系如何随着时间的推移而发展，并通过全球公司、自由市场和企业家思维的过滤器来体验。
This article explores ethnographically how digital nomads reconcile their commitment to ‘freedom’ with their relationships to state institutions. It analyses the ways these ‘global citizens’ attempt to weaken ties with nation-states and challenge state–citizen relations in areas of work, citizenship, and mobility. On the surface, digital nomads appear to break the ‘social contract’ via borderless subjectivities, or via the creation of transnational businesses. Yet in practice they remain entangled in multiple state institutions, both directly and via corporate entities, to get closer to their hotly desired ‘freedom’. This article explores digital nomads’ attempts to ‘opt-out’ or ‘re-draw’ the social contract, and illustrates the tension between the imagined social contract and how actual state–citizen relations develop over time and are experienced through the filters of global corporations, free markets, and entrepreneurial thinking.