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• 15:35, 15 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Chinese Model of Political Meritocracy (Created page with " '''* Book: The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy. By Daniel A. Bell. Princeton University Press, 2016.''' URL = https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691173047/the-china-model ''"How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy,"'' =Description= "Westerners tend to divide the political world into “good” democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model d...")
• 02:07, 15 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Hero's Journey (Created page with " =Description= Joe Corbett: "In cultural and social systems, the hero’s journey functions as a similar Cosmo-Autopoiesis subsystem pattern within a complex adaptive system. Myths, legends, and ritual templates migrate across communities, diets, technologies, and institutions, yet retain a recognizable shape: an ordinary world disrupted by a call to growth, a sequence of trials that yield new competencies or perspectives, and a reintegration that reshapes social...")
• 02:05, 15 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Krebs Cycle (Created page with " =Description= Joe Corbett: "The Krebs cycle comprises a sequence of enzymatic transformations that begin when acetyl-CoA enters oxaloacetate to form citrate. The cycle proceeds through a series of well-defined steps—citrate isomerized to isocitrate, then oxidized and decarboxylated to α-ketoglutarate, followed by another decarboxylation to succinyl-CoA, and so forth, until malate is oxidized back to oxaloacetate. In this arc, the cell harvests energy-rich electron...")
• 02:02, 15 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cosmo-Autopoiesis (Created page with " '''= "a cosmos that sustains itself through nested, self-producing cycles of transformation".''' [https://holo.substack.com/p/spiritual-biology-and-cosmo-autopoiesis] =Description= Joe Corbett: "If the Krebs cycle illustrates how a living system extracts energy and regenerates essential components within a larger metabolic web, and if the hero’s journey shows how individual transformation catalyzes social renewal within a cultural web, then a broader question aris...")
• 11:43, 14 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Small Property Mode of Production (Created page with " * See the book: A Social History of Ancient Greece Category:P2P Class Theory Category:P2P History ")
• 11:30, 14 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Social History of Ancient Greece (Created page with " '''* Book: Social History of Ancient Greece (900–338 B.C.) and the Small Property Mode of Production. Thanasis Athanasopoulos-Kalomalos (Greek: Θανάσης Αθανασόπουλος-Καλόμαλος). 2004''' URL = [ https://metabook.gr/books/social-history-of-ancient-greece-900-338-bc-and-the-small-property-mode-of-production-thanasis-athanasopoylos-kalo] =Description= ChatGPT: "the book argues against treating classical Greek society primarily as a slave-...")
• 09:16, 14 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Entropy of Capitalism (Created page with " '''* Book: The Entropy of Capitalism. By Robert Biel. Brill, 2011''' URL = https://brill.com/display/title/17387 =Description= "The project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today’s crisis when social and ecological systems clash. This book concretely demonstrates the necessity of a Marxist approach to this challenge, notably in asserting agency (struggle) as against determinism. It similarly shows how Marxism can be reinvigorated...")
• 14:46, 13 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page China Beyond Socialism and Capitalism (Created page with " '''* Book: Keyu Jin. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism. (2023)''' URL = https://www.keyujin.com/ =Contextual Quote= “Even sophisticated Americans possessed only a simplistic understanding of life in China […] But the China they imagined was far from the one that I knew from my everyday life there — not to mention that by 1997 seismic shifts were already under way. People’s excitement and hopes were bubbling over as we debated new econo...")
• 14:06, 13 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Micro-Hydro (Created page with " =Description= Growing the Commons: "A micro-hydro system converts the potential energy in a stream of moving water into electrical energy. The principles of hydropower are the same whatever the size of the system. Micro-hydro refers to small systems that can be installed by individual homes, businesses or farms. A system consists of a turbine that converts flowing water into electricity (via a generator); an intake structure some distance upstream of the turbine, wh...")
• 13:21, 13 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Reading List on Monetary Pluralism (Created page with " = as curated from Chor Pharn’s recommendations) =Context= "a composite genealogy of monetary plurality — from imperial China’s multi-media monetary systems, to China’s role in global bullion flows, to modern monetary hierarchy theory, to contemporary Chinese financial architecture and civilisation-level statecraft." (ChatGPT) =Bibliography= 1️⃣ Richard von Glahn – Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000–1700 Classic longue-du...")
• 14:23, 12 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page We All (Created page with " '''= "WeAll is a decentralized digital commons protocol".''' GitHub repo link: https://github.com/errol1swaby2-bit/Weall_node_MVP =Description= Erroll Swaby: "WeAll is a decentralized digital commons protocol that combines identity, governance, and creator compensation into one coherent civic stack. It aims to make cooperation the most rational default by pairing Proof-of-Humanity style verification with transparent proposals, juror-based dispute resolution, and a...")
• 14:14, 12 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Dataspaces in Europe (Created page with " = directory of 'common European dataspace initiatves Source: [ =Directory= == Agriculture == === Common European Initiatives === Common European Agricultural Data Space (CEADS) - implementation (Common European Data Space - Implementation) | URL: (No URL provided in source) 4Growth (Common European Data Space) | URL: https://4growth-project.eu/ AgriDataSpace - CSA preliminary study (Common European Data Space - CSA preliminary study) | URL: https://agridataspace...")
• 06:19, 12 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Neo-Sorokinian School (Created page with " = attempts to continue the 'Civilizational Analysis' approach pioneered by Pitirim Sorokin =Summary= By Deep Seek: "While there's no single dominant "Sorokin Institute," his work has been kept alive by a dedicated group of sociologists, historians, and complexity thinkers. The primary hub is the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC), which Sorokin co-founded with Arnold Toynbee. Key figures and extensions: S. N. Eisenstadt: His w...")
• 05:53, 12 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Gerhard Lenski's Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (Created page with " =Summary= Via DeepSeek: Lenski argues that societies evolve primarily through the interplay of technology (the means of harnessing energy and information) and economics (the means of distributing resources and surplus). This co-evolution drives changes in social structure, culture, politics, and even human psychology. It's a materialist, evolutionary paradigm that focuses on systemic change over centuries and millennia. Gerhard Lenski's seminal work is "Power and Pr...")
• 09:51, 11 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Information Finance (Created page with " = InfoFi =Description= "InfoFi - short for Information Finance, represents a fundamental shift in how we value, share, and profit from information in the digital age. At its core, InfoFi combines two transformative technologies: * AI’s ability to understand information (the “Info” part) * Blockchain’s ability to financialize assets (the “Fi” part) Together, they’re creating entirely new markets where your thoughts, preferences, and digital behavi...")
• 09:25, 11 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Exocapitalism (Created page with " '''* Book: Exocapitalism: economies with absolutely no limits (2025) by Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo. Becoming Press, 2025.''' URL = https://becomingpress.metalabel.com/exocapitalism? =Context= "This is not an argument for a new phase of capitalism, but rather a cosmological, retroactive take on the continuity of capital as an inhuman algorithm modelled on finance and software rather than factory and labor, manifesting in the contemporary topology of the...")
• 09:05, 11 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Imagination (Created page with " =Typology= ==Coleridge on Imagination and Fancy== Matthew David Segall: "In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge famously distinguishes between primary imagination, secondary imagination, and fancy: “The Imagination I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM. The secondary Imagination...")
• 09:03, 11 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Barfield and the Contraction of Consciousness (Created page with " =Discussion= Matthew David Segall: "Owen Barfield, a philosopher, philologist, and member of the Inklings, develops, under the influence of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy, a history of consciousness that resonates deeply with Whitehead’s diagnosis. Barfield argues that modern self-consciousness has come at the cost of losing a felt participation in a meaningful whole. He distinguishes between “original participation” and “final participation.” In original...")
• 08:59, 11 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Whitehead's Philosophy of the Organism (Created page with " =Discussion= Matthew David Segall: "He develops an alternative “philosophy of organism” in which value is reintegrated into nature. Every organism, he says, is the realization of a “definite shape of value.” Every fact is, in some sense, an achievement of value, an aesthetic attainment in the ongoing creative advance of the world. In Process and Reality, he also redefines metaphysics itself as a kind of disciplined imagination. Metaphysics, he says, is an unu...")
• 12:16, 10 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons-Based Property Regimes in German Farming Systems (Created page with " '''* Master Thesis: Commoning land for a regenerative agriculture. A study of emerging property regimes in German farming systems. By Janna Jung-Irrgang. Copenhagen University, Faculty of Science, MSc Agriculture, Production and Environment, June 2022.''' URL = N/A (request from author) =Abstract= "Amplified by climatic and social instabilities, the contribution of agriculture and land use to ecological crises is increasingly being recognized. Discourses engage with...")
• 14:54, 9 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Three Planetary Time Clocks (Created page with " =Discussion= Chor Pharn: “ THE THREE PLANETARY CLOCKS If the mesh is the planet’s circulatory system, its clocks are the pulse that drives it. Civilisations once moved inside a single timescale, slow enough for memory and myth to keep pace: the turning of agricultural seasons, court calendars, five-year plans, industrial decades. That world is gone. What the planetary OS does—quietly, without permission—is force every civilisation to inhabit three incompatibl...")
• 14:43, 9 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Equifinality (Created page with " =Description= Francis Heylighen explains: "Given these two fundamental traits — directedness and contingency — we can now see where purpose arises. Directedness implies an implicit preference: actions tend to move toward one state rather than another. In physics, we describe this as a system minimizing potential energy or maximizing entropy. In biology, it’s the drive to increase fitness. In economics, it’s the pursuit of utility. Each is a preference funct...")
• 14:41, 9 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Parochial Altruism (Created page with " =Description= From the Wikipedia: “Parochial altruism is a concept in social psychology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology that describes altruism towards an in-group, often accompanied by hostility towards an out-group. It is a combination of altruism, defined as behavior done for the benefit of others without direct effect on the self, and parochialism, which refers to having a limited viewpoint. Together, these concepts create parochial altruism, or altruism...")
• 14:39, 9 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Project State (Created page with " =Description= By Anton Jäger: “Maier’s book offers a new solution to this enigma. In his view, all the classical categories used to describe the twentieth-century state miss its central feature: its orientation around the notion of a project, which could weld business interests, the general population, and state bureaucrats under a single, long-term time horizon. What united Roosevelt’s America, Stalin’s Russia, Attlee’s Britain, Hitler’s Germany, Mao’s...")
• 08:30, 8 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Democratic AI (Created page with " ==Characteristics== By Vasilis Kostakis and Aristotle Tympas: "Democratic AI requires four foundations: ===Open source=== Models must be open so researchers and citizens can examine them and identify problems. ===Public funding=== AI research must serve the common good, not private profit. Funding must flow directly to communities developing AI for social needs; not just universities producing papers, but projects maintaining actual tools people use. Currentl...")
• 08:21, 8 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Community-Controlled Artificial Intelligence (Created page with " See also: AI as a Commons. =Context= By Vasilis Kostakis and Aristotle Tympas: "We do not need enormous computing power to run functional AI systems. The energy-intensive nature of today's AI is not a technical necessity – it is a consequence of profit-seeking design choices. Tech giants promote gigantic models requiring vast energy and water because they're designed to do everything for everyone: a logic serving scale and profit, not efficiency. Smaller, spe...")
• 07:14, 8 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Real Estate Property Hacking (Created page with " =Typology= (from the Encommuns interview with Maxime Zait, co-founder of Communa) '''* Sébastien Broca – Corinne Vercher-Chaptal: This brings us to the question of how to articulate the world of commons and public authorities.''' Maxime Zaït: That’s exactly what interests me: finding the right articulation to produce effective public policies at the interface between commons practices and institutional practices; getting these two sets of interests—which...")
• 07:07, 8 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Squats (Created page with " =Typology= (from an interview of the co-founder of Communa with the journal EnCommuns) Maxime Zait: "To simplify, there are two types of squats. There are artist squats, where people with a high level of cultural capital do this because it’s cool and they can afford to. Then there are migrant squats or underground squats, which may have political demands but sometimes just seek discretion and peace. For this second category, they would love to go through us. Th...")
• 06:58, 8 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule (Created page with " '''* Article: Regimes of Resonance: Cosmos, Empire, and Changing Technologies of CCP Rule. By Vivienne Shue.''' URL = https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00977004211068055 =Description= "This analysis aims to place certain key elements of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule observed under Xi Jinping today into longer and fuller historical perspective. “Ideology” and “organization” are each indisputably indispensable components of how, and how well, the...")
• 06:33, 8 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mesh Violence (Created page with " '''= caused by misalignment with planetary process''' =Discussion= Chor Pharn: "Bypass becomes the new form of violence. Not destruction—displacement. Not invasion—irrelevance. Not triumph—exclusion from timing. China feels this pressure not because it is weak, but because it is the last remaining full body. Holding coherence inside a system that punishes wholeness is exhausting. Every conflict, every rerouting, every asymmetry lands inside its internal machin...")
• 13:49, 7 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Debate vs Dialogue (Created page with " "Do we want a world built on domination or a world built on relationship? A world of debate or a world of dialogue? A world of victories, or a world of understanding?" =Discussion= Don Vande Krol: '''* Debate Is About Dominance''' "In our public life today, we—and our children—are exposed to two very different modes of communication: debate and dialogue. And debate, as it’s now practiced, has little to do with finding truth. It begins with seeing two si...")
• 06:49, 5 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Constitution of Ancient China (Created page with " '''* Book: The Constitution of Ancient China. By Su Li. Edited by Zhang Yongle Daniel A. Bell. Princeton University Press, 2018.''' URL = https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691171593/the-constitution-of-ancient-china =Description= "How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China’s political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China...")
• 06:45, 5 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Economic Decolonization for the Global South (Created page with " =Discussion= Samba Sylla and Jason Hickel: "To achieve unilateral decolonization and economic sovereignty, we identified six principles of action. Countries that are dependent on imports from the global North are under pressure to acquire large volumes of foreign currency to pay for it. This means they must mobilize production around exports to the North (or take on external debt). But because Southern exports are cheapened compared to Northern goods, this arrangemen...")
• 06:36, 5 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Project State and Its Rivals (Created page with " * '''Book: The Project State and Its Rivals.''' URL = =Review= Review by By Anton Jäger: "Maier is on the lookout for a unifying category to cohere our historical experience of the twentieth century—or, more specifically, the forms of statehood that emerged in the interwar period, and that still present such vexing challenges to our intellectual imagination. Maier’s project states moved within a triad of forces: the so-called web of capital, the network of gov...")
• 06:32, 5 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Wisdom and Culture Lab (Created page with " URL = https://uwaterloo.ca/wisdom-and-culture-lab/ =Description= “We study how people make wise decisions: in everyday life, across cultures, and over time. Our work sits at the intersection of Social & Cultural Psychology and Judgment & Decision Making, with computational methods and projects on human-AI interactions and AI value alignment.” Category:Research Category:Protocols and Algorithms ")
• 06:31, 5 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Carbon Technocracy (Created page with " '''* Book: Carbon Technocracy. Victor Seow.''' URL = =Review= Toynbee Prize: "Victor, in one of the central claims of the book, argues that the search for and the extraction and use of carbon explains the emergence of the modern state. A central premise of the book, as he makes clear in the introduction, is that “the fossil fuel economy made possible the modern state and the modern state the fossil fuel economy.” This mutual- or co-production has, according t...")
• 05:11, 4 December 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (Created page with " '''* Article: Beutel, T., Makode, P.K., Tessone, C.J., Serdült, U. (2026). Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations. In: Lustenberger, M., Spychiger, F., Küng, L. (eds) Decentralized Autonomous Organizations—Governance, Technology, and Legal Perspectives. DAWO 2025. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham.''' [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-03273-7_3 doi] URL = https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-03273-7_...")
• 02:04, 27 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons-Based Temporary Housing Project (Created page with " * see: Communa ")
• 01:36, 27 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Temporary Housing Projects (Created page with " =Discussion= (Translated from the French, in EnCommuns) By Sébastien Broca and Corinne Vercher-Chaptal: "In major cities or their close peripheries, we are witnessing the development of projects that occupy vacant or underused spaces: industrial or railway sites in the process of transformation, former public facilities (hospitals, schools), office or residential buildings, vacant commercial surfaces, or leftover urban spaces. Their multiplication over the past twen...")
• 23:52, 26 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page China’s Temporal Triplicity (Created page with " =Discussion= Chor Pharn: "China’s OS does not run on a single civilisational clock. It runs simultaneously on three: The ancient clock, moving in millennia, carrying the reflex that unity prevents catastrophe. The compressed modernity clock, moving in decades, where safety, welfare, mobility, and consumption — all under thirty years old — expanded faster than their moral and institutional anchors could deepen. The autonomic clock, moving in milliseconds, driv...")
• 23:41, 26 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page System-State (Created page with " =Description= Chor Pharn: A system-state is not a strong state. It is not a Leninist state. It is not a technocratic state. A system-state is a civilisation that has: a coherent centre responsive peripheries a memory architecture an industrial metabolism an infrastructural nervous system a sovereign financial circulatory system and a feedback loop that binds all the above together China is the only one in this category today. Japan once approximated it. T...")
• 23:32, 26 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page China's Civilizational Stack (Created page with " =Context= ==The System-State Defined== Chor Pharn: A system-state is not a strong state. It is not a Leninist state. It is not a technocratic state. A system-state is a civilisation that has: a coherent centre responsive peripheries a memory architecture an industrial metabolism an infrastructural nervous system a sovereign financial circulatory system and a feedback loop that binds all the above together China is the only one in this category today....")
• 05:14, 24 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Infrastructural Capitalism in China (Created page with " =More information= PUN, N. (2025). China’s Deepening Infrastructural Capitalism : The Hard Landing of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Automated Technology. The Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/5.1.1 TSE, T., & PUN, N. (2024). Infrastructural capitalism in China : Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms. Global Media and China, 9(1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241226846...")
• 01:44, 24 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Adam Tooze on China's Geopolitical Strategy of Connections (Created page with " =Discussion= Adam Tooze: "China is not just inheriting the world the West made, including through imperialism; it is actively engaged in reshaping it, or world making. This difference is more than methodological, it may help us, perhaps, both to see the world more clearly and to come to terms of it in a less antagonistic manner. China in the late 1990s effectively created a new Bretton Woods - some call it Bretton Woods 2.0 - by autonomously by pegging its currency...")
• 01:22, 24 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Fully Distributed Economic Computation (Created page with " =Discussion= ECSA: "Economic systems are fundamentally computational. They operate according to underlying rules: a formal economic logic that inscribes how value is defined, recognized, measured, and coordinated. This shapes their outcomes, limitations, and the economic agency they afford to participants. Understanding this is the key to guiding their evolution. It reveals that our economic reality is not natural, but human-made. And that, if we want to change it, t...")
• 00:50, 24 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page AGI Economy (Created page with " '''= "From Population to Computing: A Fundamental Shift in Growth Drivers".''' =Description= Suyeon Kim: "Professor Restrepo defines AGI as “a state in which all economically valuable work currently performed by humans can be accomplished using computational resources.” AGI thus represents more than technological superiority in specific domains—it marks a critical inflection point where algorithms and computing power combine to replace production activities ac...")
• 00:30, 24 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pascual Restrepo on Bottleneck Work vs Supplementary Work (Created page with " =Discussion= Suyeon Kim, summarizing Pascual Restrepo: "Professor Restrepo categorizes the multitude of tasks that comprise economic activity into two fundamental types. “Bottleneck work” refers to critical infrastructure—core tasks that must function together for the broader system to operate. This kind of work has an interdependent structure in that economic activity as a whole grinds to a halt if even one bottleneck fails. In contrast, “supplementary work...")
• 14:40, 23 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Post-National Citizenship (Created page with " =More information= * Article: Towards Post-National and Denationalized Citizenship. By SASKIA SASSEN. URL = https://saskiasassen.com/PDFs/publications/Towards-post-national-and-denationalized-citizenship.pdf "Most of the scholarship on citizenship has claimed a necessary connection to the national state. The transformations afoot today raise questions about this proposition in so far as they significantly alter those conditions which in the past fed that articulati...")
• 02:00, 22 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page China as a Status Quo Power (Created page with " '''* Article: What Does China Want? Open By David C. Kang, Jackie S. H. Wong, Zenobia T. Chan. International Security (2025) 50 (1): 46–81. [https://doi.org/10.1162/ISEC.a.5 doi]''' URL = https://direct.mit.edu/isec/article/50/1/46/132729/What-Does-China-Want =Abstract= "The conventional wisdom is that China is a rising hegemon eager to replace the United States, dominate international institutions, and re-create the liberal international order in its own image. D...")
• 12:24, 21 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Kultur Land Cooperative - Germany (Created page with " '''* Article: Commons-Based Land Stewardship in Practice: Reflections from the Kultur Land Cooperative - Germany. Thomas Kliemt.''' URL = https://ssecommons.cei.iscte-iul.pt/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Book-of-Abstracts_SSE2025_v4_Final.pdf#page=73 =Abstract= "Since 2013 the Kulturland Cooperative (Kulturland-Genossenschaft) has purchased farmland through citizen investment and leased it to small-scale organic farmers under long-term stewardship contracts. It no...")