Verses, Artifacts, and the Collective Mandate – ZORA ZINE

Spawned from Meta's rebranding, Verses, the collective of writers, researchers, and technologists, churning essays dubbed 'artifacts', argues for a Pluriverse—the coexistence of many worlds and value systems in Web3

Text Zine Published 02 Feb 2022 It’s almost unthinkable to imagine a time when the writers and works of ancient canon—Cicero, Quintilian, and most famously, Lucretius’ “On the Nature of Things” amongst many others—whose rediscovery inexorably awakened Europe into its Renaissance, were nearly lost in time—not just from papyrus decomposition, but from the abbots in the libraries of monasteries who guarded and controlled the pagan and irreligious texts during the aptly named Dark Ages. These works’ reintroduction into the world, through meticulous hand-copying (this preceded Gutenberg's Press), w

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