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- 02:04, 27 November 2025 Commons-Based Temporary Housing Project (hist | edit) [19 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " * see: Communa ")
- 01:36, 27 November 2025 Temporary Housing Projects (hist | edit) [7,019 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 China’s Temporal Triplicity (hist | edit) [1,153 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 System-State (hist | edit) [3,856 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 China's Civilizational Stack (hist | edit) [6,551 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 Infrastructural Capitalism in China (hist | edit) [652 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 Adam Tooze on China's Geopolitical Strategy of Connections (hist | edit) [4,184 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 Fully Distributed Economic Computation (hist | edit) [2,396 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 AGI Economy (hist | edit) [10,668 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 Pascual Restrepo on Bottleneck Work vs Supplementary Work (hist | edit) [1,504 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 Post-National Citizenship (hist | edit) [2,885 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 China as a Status Quo Power (hist | edit) [1,746 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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 Kultur Land Cooperative - Germany (hist | edit) [776 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (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...")
- 12:19, 21 November 2025 Commons-Based Land Stewardship (hist | edit) [1,331 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Example= Case study on '''* 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 "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 con...")
- 03:11, 21 November 2025 Logos (hist | edit) [1,656 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " = not the philosophical or spiritual concept,but a Web3 community and infrastructure project =Status= Chainwire: "Over the past few years, three different teams, Codex, Nomos, and Waku, have been building essential pieces of decentralised technology. Each had its own identity, its own community, and its own product roadmap. But underneath the different projects was one shared goal: to create a social movement and decentralised technology stack to revitalise civil soc...")
- 01:01, 21 November 2025 Multi-Scale Competency Architecture (hist | edit) [4,437 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Definition= Sacha Pignot: "Governance should be organized across multiple nested and overlapping scales, with each scale handling exactly the competencies it is best suited for, based on empirical capacity rather than ideology or tradition. Scales are dynamically adjustable and can be non-hierarchical or heterarchical." (https://soushi888.github.io/alternef-digital-garden/knowledge/governance-and-community/subsidiarity) Category:Complexity Category:P2P Theo...")
- 23:49, 20 November 2025 Conspiracy Theory vs. Coincidence Theory (hist | edit) [1,274 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Peter Limberger: < in 20 25, everyone is a conspiracy theorist > "In the X-Files serie, “ Mulder was the believer; Scully, the skeptic. Or rather, he was the “conspiracy theorist,” and she was the “coincidence theorist,” a term used to describe someone who rejects any conspiratorial thinking, views strange patterns as coincidences, and places blind trust in expert explanations. In the series, Mulder wins out and turns out to be more right tha...")
- 23:45, 20 November 2025 Toward New Institutions of Time (hist | edit) [3,679 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Toward New Institutions of Time== Chor Pharn: "Every world-machine ends by producing the conditions for its successor. The industrial–financial order gave us global infrastructure and planetary markets but also temporal chaos: systems that run faster than the societies they serve. The Mnemonic Stack is the name for the institutions that can repair that drift. To be useful, the idea must now move from metaphor to programme. The first task is temp...")
- 15:33, 20 November 2025 Post-Institutional Future (hist | edit) [3,138 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= "There’s a larger context for why functional pluralism matters right now: we’re living through what might be called the twilight of institutional gravity. For most of modern history, institutions: corporations, nonprofits, government agencies, universities, have been the primary vehicles for coordinated action. This made sense when coordination required significant fixed infrastructure, when information flow required centralized management, and when...")
- 15:14, 20 November 2025 Functional Pluralism (hist | edit) [11,048 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''= "the idea that organizations should embrace strategic differentiation rather than fighting it, that divergence isn’t a bug but a feature, and that the ability to fork might be one of the most important organizational capacities of our fraught and liminal time".''' [https://omniharmonic.substack.com/p/fork-you] =Description= Benjamin Life: "Functional pluralism is a deceptively simple idea: let organizational form follow functional diversity. When multiple via...")
- 00:36, 19 November 2025 Hyper-Localism (hist | edit) [1,714 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= For Sacha Pignot, it is the micro-level 'Connected Foundation' of the Fractal Sovereignty stack: "Hyper-localism in fractal sovereignty isn’t isolation—it’s creating resilient foundation layers that can participate meaningfully in larger networks. This includes: - Household production: Food preservation, craft production, repair culture, energy generation - Community workshops: Shared tools, skill exchanges, local fabrication capabilities...")
- 00:26, 19 November 2025 Sacha Pignot on the Three Levels of the Cosmo-Local Fractal Sovereignty Stack (hist | edit) [2,695 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= =Typology= Sacha Pignot identifies three levels: ==Hyper-Localism (micro level)== "The Connected Foundation: Hyper-localism in fractal sovereignty isn’t isolation—it’s creating resilient foundation layers that can participate meaningfully in larger networks. This includes: - Household production: Food preservation, craft production, repair culture, energy generation - Community workshops: Shared tools, skill exchanges, local fabricatio...")
- 00:17, 19 November 2025 Fractal Patterns (hist | edit) [1,006 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Sacha Pignot: "Throughout nature, we find Fractal Patterns that enable efficient scaling across multiple orders of magnitude: Tree branching distributes nutrients while maintaining structural integrity River networks efficiently drain watersheds from tributaries to main channels Lightning bolts find optimal paths through branching patterns Lung and circulatory systems maximize surface area while minimizing transport costs These natural fractals...")
- 12:53, 18 November 2025 Eastern Philosophies in Decentralized Worlds (hist | edit) [1,902 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Article: Rong, Helena and Sun, Zhe, The Dao of the DAO: Eastern Philosophies in Decentralized Worlds (October 28, 2025).''' Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5731428 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5731428 ''"exploring how ancient philosophical ideas find renewed life in emergent socio-technical forms."'' =Abstract= "In chapter 62 of Daodejing, Laozi describes the Dao as "the hearth and home of the ten thousand things. Good souls treasure it, los...")
- 05:01, 18 November 2025 Machine Workforce (hist | edit) [2,058 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Chor Pharn: “You run a single job across multiple campuses — Wisconsin, Canada, Chile. Wherever the electrons are.” Wherever the electrons are. Not where the people are. Not where the company is. Not where the nation is. That was the giveaway — that the largest, most capable “workforce” on the planet no longer lives in any of the places we associate with work. The interview gave us something far more profound than an update on AI stra...")
- 02:49, 17 November 2025 Spirit of Technicity (hist | edit) [4,669 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Mary Harrington on Heidegger's concept: "What are we doing when we enclose something, and re-order it to market society? I name-dropped Heidegger above and want to round off this little interlude or detour by offering his term “enframing” as a means of deepening that understanding. In The Question Concerning Technology Heidegger argued that the essence of technology is not a set of tools, techniques, or machines but a mindset or way of looking at the...")
- 02:36, 17 November 2025 Feminism (hist | edit) [2,928 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''= "women’s aggregate response to the impact of technology on our specific embodied interests as female human beings, encompassing all that ought to be implied by “female human beings” properly understood".''' [https://www.maryharrington.co.uk/p/feminism-and-identity-in-the-transhuman] Category:Gender Category:Movements ")
- 02:29, 17 November 2025 Common-Sense Understanding as a Field of Knowledge (hist | edit) [4,178 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Charles McKelvey: "For Lonergan, common sense is a field of knowledge, existing alongside the fields of science (including social science), history, and mathematics. Common-sense knowledge originates from talking, which is a basic human art, through which each communicates to others what he or she knows, thus provoking contradictions that direct the attention of each subject to what he or she has overlooked, involving the discovery and addressing of relev...")
- 02:28, 17 November 2025 Common-Sense Intelligence (hist | edit) [9,469 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= ==On Common-Sense Understanding as a Field of Knowledge== Charles McKelvey: "For Lonergan, common sense is a field of knowledge, existing alongside the fields of science (including social science), history, and mathematics. Common-sense knowledge originates from talking, which is a basic human art, through which each communicates to others what he or she knows, thus provoking contradictions that direct the attention of each subject to what he or she...")
- 02:13, 17 November 2025 Study of Human Understanding (hist | edit) [7,873 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Book: Bernard Lonergan. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. 1957.''' URL = =Context= Charles McKelvey: "Bernard Lonergan was a Catholic philosopher who formulated an understanding of the process through which the “subject,” that is, a person seeking truth, can arrive to knowledge and correct understanding, even though understanding is shaped and limited by the social position of the subject. In Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (originally publ...")
- 23:27, 15 November 2025 Machine Time vs Human Political Time (hist | edit) [783 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Chor Pharn: "The Rise of Machine Time '''* The old political time ran on:''' years, terms, cycles, speeches, summits, treaties. '''Machine time ran on: ''' milliseconds, inference, latency budgets, grid oscillations, packet flow, maintenance windows. When machine time overtook political time, pressure built in the mismatch. Diplomacy moved slower than cyberattacks. Permits moved slower than grids. Regulations moved slower than AI models...")
- 09:24, 15 November 2025 Lishui Model of Rural Reconstruction in China (hist | edit) [5,748 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Via DeepSeek, November 2025: ==The Theoretical Foundation: Wen Tiejun and the "Three Rural Issues== "To understand Lishui, you must first understand the theoretical framework provided by Professor Wen Tiejun (温铁军). The "Three Rural Issues" (三农问题): Wen is the foremost intellectual associated with diagnosing China's "Three Rural Issues": the interconnected crises of Agriculture (农业), Rural Areas (农村), and Peasants (农民). He arg...")
- 07:18, 15 November 2025 Syllabus on Civilizational History, Transition Dynamics and the Historical Role of the Commons by Michel Bauwens (hist | edit) [13,806 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Context= Lecturer: Michel Bauwens: PhDSeminar, P2P and Civilizational Transition This is the syllabus for the seminars first held on Tuesdays 15-17, Aula Ovale, Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Vico Monte della Pietà 1. * Original Context as provided by Adam Arvidsson: "I would like you to send me a mini syllabus for your four PhD seminars: I imagine the first occasion could be a sort of introductory lecture where you can present your project, and the remaining...")
- 06:59, 15 November 2025 Political Economy of China’s Development (hist | edit) [1,394 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Book: Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China’s Development (1949-2020). Wen Tiejun. Springer,''' URL = https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0455-3 =Description= "This open access handbook, Ten Crises systematically traces the economic history of China from 1949 to 2020, unravelling the complex domestic and global factors leading to the cyclical crises identified by WEN and his research team, and examining the corresponding counteracting polic...")
- 06:33, 15 November 2025 Profit Share Calculator of Sanctuary Computer (hist | edit) [2,774 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " URL = https://github.com/sanctuarycomputer/studio =Context= Sanctuary Computer: "At Sanctuary Computer, we believe there's a better work environment than the poles of freelancing, or working a fulltime job. We think that when talented and creative people can see the effects of their skill and ability effect the bottom line, and feel true ownership in their work, they will naturally make better decisions for clients, the studio, and themselves. There's big impacts fo...") originally created as "Profit Share Calculator of Santuary Computer"
- 05:02, 15 November 2025 Whale Decomposition Stage of Imperial Decline (hist | edit) [2,311 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Contextual Quote== < "The Anglo-Atlantic carcass sinking through warm water, feeding the creatures that will inherit the deep. Open-source communities, rogue AI labs, digital diasporas—all feed on its residues of capital and imagination. The decomposition is grotesque and generative at once: a democracy of scavengers." - Chor Pharn [https://thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/the-ocean-of-intelligent-infrastructure] =Discussion= Chor Pharn, on the 'whale-fall stage...")
- 04:56, 15 November 2025 Emergence of the Village Commune and its Surplus Production (hist | edit) [4,812 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Suriano: "Therefore, if the so-called “Axial” age, or the age of the “State’s emergence” within the ANE, was an attempt to reorganize society around new “transcendental visions” of the whole, as some recent accounts describe it, this then requires elaborating some basic features of the village commune’s self-transcending trajectories that both enabled, and were distorted by, such shifts.279 Three progressive qualities here must th...")
- 04:36, 15 November 2025 Index (hist | edit) [1,640 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''= "a network of co-working and community spaces".''' URL = https://www.index-space.org/ =Description= Learning in Public: "The second in our series Learning in Public is an interview with the people behind Index, a network of co-working and community spaces with roots in New York and locations all over the world. Index is particularly interesting, I think, for its peer-led programming and its funding structure. We get into both of these things below, but I’l...")
- 06:07, 14 November 2025 Solidarity Tech (hist | edit) [3,790 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Context= Use in political campaigns, such as that of Mamdani in NYC, by Micah Sifry: "One of the less-heralded stories of Mamdani’s rise is how his campaign used technology originally built to help organize rideshare workers – a notably difficult-to-organize constituency – to power his anti-establishment campaign. But figuring out how to reel in thousands of disparate individuals and then turn them into a persuasion-and-mobilization machine is a problem that w...")
- 05:58, 14 November 2025 Kosmos Law (hist | edit) [9,043 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Text= The Social Contract for the AI Future, ass proposed by Chor Pharn: ===Clause I — Sovereignty of Compute=== "As Westphalia ended Europe’s wars of religion by guaranteeing the right to believe differently, the first article of the new treaty guaranteed the right to compute differently. Each civilisation was recognised as sovereign over the design of its learning systems—its data laws, ethics, and governance logic—provided that these architectures remaine...")
- 05:26, 14 November 2025 Project Society (hist | edit) [6,077 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Chor Pharn: "Half a century ago, most adults in industrial nations belonged to an institution larger than themselves. They worked in a ministry, a factory, a union, or a firm that promised lifetime employment. They voted for parties that offered plans measured in decades. They paid taxes that built roads, dams, and schools in their name. Even leisure had a collective rhythm: weekend sport, summer holidays, the nightly news at a fixed hour. Life was lived...")
- 04:09, 13 November 2025 Decelerationist (hist | edit) [601 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " = to be contrasted with Accelerationism =Description= * '''Decel / doomer''' From a tweet cited by Adam Tooze: "I gotta hand it to the e/accs: “decel” is a beautiful turn of phrase. It effortlessly links “decelerationist” to the reviled “incel,” making it a perfect all-purpose slur for anyone advocating more than zero tech regulations or who’s unwilling to raze a neighborhood in service of a new chip factory." (https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/wh...")
- 03:54, 13 November 2025 Rural Communals in France (hist | edit) [4,683 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Context= Michel Bauwens: The 'Communaux' are the remnants of common rural property in France, attached to villages. There are (were ?) still about 100k of them, but they are under legal threat of a new process of 'Enclosures' =Discussion= Translated excerpt from a interview with the anthropologist Philippe Descola: (interview conducted by Olivier Chavanon et Jean-François Joye.) '''* "What does the rediscovery of ancestral land commons, also known as "communau...")
- 03:46, 13 November 2025 National Interest (hist | edit) [4,381 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Book: Philip Cunliffe. The National Interest.''' URL = =Review= Heather Penatzer: "Cunliffe offers a more prescriptive intervention. Asserting from the outset that “the age of globalism is over,” he argues that “we should replace the political, legal and infrastructural legacy of hyperglobalization—or globalism—with a new international order, based around the national interests of individual nation-states.” Those national interests, Cunliffe claims...")
- 03:43, 13 November 2025 Collapse of Global Liberalism (hist | edit) [2,236 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Book: Philip Pilkington. The Collapse of Global Liberalism.''' URL = =Review= Heather Penatzer: "Pilkington defines liberalism as “the Enlightenment ideology par excellence that sought to level and ‘rationalize’ social and political relationships.” He devotes the first half of the book to a theoretical critique, treating liberal ideology as a system of ideas that intermediates all relationships, whether political, social, economic, or moral. As an Enl...")
- 03:15, 13 November 2025 Brazilianization of the World (hist | edit) [1,595 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " * Article: Alex Hochuli. The Brazilianization of the World. American Affairs Journal, URL = =Summary= Chor Pharn: "What Hochuli actually argues (the load-bearing theses) * End of high modern feedback. The twentieth-century state—“confident machines forged in war”—no longer delivers coordinated outcomes; legitimacy and capacity decay in the capitalist core, exposed by Covid and persistent policy paralysis. * Brazil as preview, not exception. The traits l...")
- 02:45, 13 November 2025 Development in Progress (hist | edit) [6,712 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''* Article: Development in Progress. The concept of progress is at the heart of humanity’s story. The Consilience Project, Jul 16, 2024''' URL = https://consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/ =Excerpts= ==Contextual Introduction== Introduction to the Critique of the Progress Narrative, the context for the Consilience Project article: "The concept of progress is at the heart of humanity’s story. From the present, it is possible to imagine a future of...")
- 05:33, 12 November 2025 SciencePedia (hist | edit) [3,734 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Chor Pharn: ""In Beijing, a team of engineers and researchers have built what they call SciencePedia — a replacement not for Wikipedia’s content, but for its logic. They started from a simple but radical question: What if we could store not conclusions, but the reasoning that produced them? Most scientific writing compresses centuries of trial and error into tidy equations and summaries. You see what was discovered, but not why it must be true. This...")
- 05:27, 12 November 2025 Dark Factory Infrastructure (hist | edit) [2,336 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= < "an industrial chain and more like an autonomous organism." > Chor Pharn: "The first place where the new intelligence became visible was the factory floor. When engineers in Shenzhen switched off the lights, production didn’t stop. Robots assembled entire vehicles in complete darkness because nothing there required eyes. The cameras were infrared, the sensors ultrasonic, the rhythm unbroken. What startled even the designers was that the machines...")
- 04:37, 12 November 2025 China's Two Mountains Theory of Green Industrialization (hist | edit) [8,452 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Adam Tooze: "As recently as the early 2000s China was a chronically power-poor society. Answering that poverty with coal power was an achievement, but it created the world’s greatest pollution disaster. Cleaning that up whilst delivering more and more electricity is a spectacular achievement of development. Creating a world-leading new industry to produce solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and EV adds to the success. This is the achievement of mil...")