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• 08:59, 11 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Technology Adoption Statistics Show Acceleration over Time (Created page with " =Statistics= "the time required for a majority adoption of technologies has been shortened over time: 129 years for the toilet to reach 100% of households in 1989. 120 years for drinking water to reach 100% of households in 1980. 99 years for fixed telephony to reach its highest peak of 95% in 2002. 78 years for the automobile to reach its highest peak of 92% in 1993. 48 years for electricity to reach 100% of households in 1956. 47 years for the radio and the ref...")
• 19:26, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mountain Commons - Switzerland (Created page with " See: the ComMount Research Project on the Swiss Mountain Commons Category:Commons Category:Switzerland ")
• 17:53, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page How Warfare Produces Civilization (Created page with " =Discussion= Brett Bowden: "According to arguments such as Mill’s, it is only civilized societies that have the organizational capacity and professional stratification to be efficient and effective war-makers. As Arnold Toynbee (1951: viii) explains, “the possibility of waging war pre-supposes a minimum of technique and organization and surplus wealth beyond what is needed for bare subsistence.” At the same time, somewhat curiously, it is thought that war-making...")
• 17:42, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Crypto Wars (Created page with " '''* Book: Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption. By Craig Jarvis. CRC Press, 2021''' URL = https://www.routledge.com/Crypto-Wars-The-Fight-for-Privacy-in-the-Digital-Age-A-Political-History-of-Digital-Encryption/Jarvis/p/book/9780367642488 =Description= "The crypto wars have raged for half a century. In the 1970s, digital privacy activists prophesied the emergence of an Orwellian State, made possible by co...")
• 16:16, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Russian Culturology (Created page with " =Discussion= Corinna Lotz: "One of the most illuminating sections of this book is the discussion on ‘culturology’ and its exponents. Epstein describes it as a ‘metadiscipline’ which embraces a host of humanistic disciplines, tracing it back to the German intellectual tradition. This approach was a way of investigating the diversity of cultures and their modes of interaction. Mikhail Bakhtin, Aleksei Losev, Vladimir Bibler, Sergei Averintsev and Georgi Gachev...")
• 16:04, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Sociocyberneering (Created page with " =Description= "What is Sociocyberneering? Jacque Fresco’s current definition is: Cybernation and Engineering applied to the Social System. The use of this term is an attempt to bring back the original name which was well thought out by Jacque Fresco, because it describes what The Venus Project is about. “It would take ten years to change the surface of the Earth. To rebuild the world into a second garden of Eden. The choice lies with you. The stupidity of a nuc...")
• 15:35, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Alexander Dugin (Created page with " =More information= ==Bibliography== "The list of distinct studies on Dugin includes, among others: D. Shlapentokh, ‘Aleksandr Dugin’s views of Russian history: collapse and revival’, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 25(3) (2017), pp. 331–43; D. Shlapentokh, ‘The great friendship: geopolitical fantasies about the Russia/Europe alliance in the early Putin era (2000–2008) – the case of Aleksandr Dugin’, Debatte: Journal of Contempor...")
• 15:18, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Amadea Bordiga (Created page with " =More information= Intro video by C. Derek Varn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7a4TWRJSHQ ==Bibliography== Bordiga, Amadeo (2020). The Science and Passion of Communism: Selected Writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965). Translated by Giacomo Donis. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004234505. Broder, David (2021-10-13). The Rebirth of Italian Communism, 1943–44: Dissidents in German-Occupied Rome. Springer Nature. El-Ojeili, Chamsy (2015). Beyond Post-Socialism: Dialogues...")
• 14:44, 10 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Francis Spufford on the Revival of the Planned Economy in the Algorithmic Age (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/live/q0Hghul4oEI?si=ulJTmH6aQdG0OJFd =Description= Michel Bauwens: I can warmly recommend reading the faction novel Red Plenty, about the invention of the internet in Soviet Russia and why this attempt at more democratic coordination was killed off. This is an interview of author Francis Spufford, and how the new algorithmic economy is reviving interest in economic planning: * "Comrades, Let's Optimize!" The Surprising Rebirth of th...")
• 20:52, 8 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Hacking the Neoliberal Legal Order Through the Commons (Created page with " '''* Article: Hacking the legal. The commons between the governance paradigm and inspirations drawn from the "living history" of collective land use. By Giuseppe Micciarelli.IN: 2022, Post- Growth Planning. Cities Beyond the Market Economy.''' URL = https://www.academia.edu/115538469/Hacking_the_legal_The_commons_between_the_governance_paradigm_and_inspirations_drawn_from_the_living_history_of_collective_land_use =Abstract= "The grammar of the commons is located in...")
• 20:48, 8 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Legal Political Hacking (Created page with " * See the article: Hacking the Neoliberal Legal Order Through the Commons Category:P2P Law ")
• 19:58, 8 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Biology and the Transcendent (Created page with " '''* CHAPTER XVIII: CAN BIOLOGY, TAKEN TO ITS EXTREME LIMIT, ENABLE US TO EMERGE INTO THE TRANSCENDENT? By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.''' URL = https://www.organism.earth/library/document/what-is-life-teilhard [https://archive.org/details/ScienceAndChrist/page/n210/mode/1up full text] =Description= WHAT IS LIFE? : March 2, 1950 "Teilhard says life is not an anomaly, but a universal cosmic (Text sourced from https://www.organism.earth/library/document/what-is-life-t...")
• 19:50, 8 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page History of Truth-Making Institutions (Created page with " '''* Article: Truth-making institutions: From divination, ordeals and oaths to judicial torture and rules of evidence. By Hugo Mercier and Pascal Boyer. Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 42, Issue 3, May 2021, Pages 259-267 [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.11.004 doi]''' URL = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513820301367 =Abstract= "In many human societies, truth-making institutions are considered necessary to establish an o...")
• 15:45, 8 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Algorithmic Democracy (Created page with " '''Book: Algorithmic Democracy. A Critical Perspective Based on Deliberative Democracy. By Domingo García-Marzá and Patrici Calvo. Springer''', URL = https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53015-9 =Description= "The first book to deal with the digital transformation of democracy from an ethical and political perspective Deals with both the strategic/technical and ethical/affective dimensions of AI. Highlights challenges and possibilities of a democracy...")
• 15:29, 8 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Culture - Nature Relations and Ecological Crisis from 2200 BC to AD 900 (Created page with " = excerpted from the book Recurring Dark Ages from Sing Chew. =Discussion= Sing Chew: "Following the Neolithic Revolution, the Urban Revolution as a world historical process framed the course of human history. One of the earliest signs of urbanization appeared in the riverine valleys of southern Mesopotamia, Egypt, and northwestern India over five thousand years ago, and continued the transformation of the landscape by human communities that started with the ad...")
• 21:11, 7 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nesting Anthropocene Rupture Within the Process of Noosphere Formation (Created page with " =Discussion= Boris Shoshitaishvili: "Of the limited scholarly efforts at bringing the two concepts closer together (de Jong, 2019; Lemmens, 2018; Nordblad, 2014), one of the most important early attempts appeared briefly in a 2005 paper co-authored by Paul Crutzen, the atmospheric chemist who first coined the term Anthropocene 20 years ago: Will the Anthropocene simply turn out to be a very short era in which humanity blindly careens forward, continuing to transform t...")
• 20:52, 7 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Great Acceleration (Created page with " =Description= Boris Shoshitaishvili: "The complex set of human-driven global, social, technological, and environmental changes intensifying dramatically since 1950 has been identified as the “Great Acceleration.” This period of time represents a radical shift in our collective relationship to each other as well as to the Earth system as a whole." (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020EF001917) =More information= '''* Article: From Anthr...")
• 20:35, 7 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Rafael Castaneda (Created page with " =Bio= Rafael Castaneda (@castacrypto) is the idealizer of Valocracy. Educator and Content Creator with a [M.Sc] in Computer Science from IME/RJ and 20+ years in tech, education, and human development. Founder of the '''Casta Guilda community, where 400+ people study "Technophilosophy"''', a particular approach to blockchain that focuses on the philosophical, sociological, and economical aspects of crypto rather than investments or price action." =More informati...")
• 15:40, 7 April 2024 Asimong talk contribs created page Matslats (Redirected page to Matthew Slater) Tag: New redirect
• 15:10, 7 April 2024 Asimong talk contribs created page Matthew Slater (long awaited creation of this page!)
• 10:32, 7 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Emergence of Metamodern Religion (Created page with "Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8795J_4Oz7c =Description= "Despite the recent uptick of high-profile conversions to traditional Christianity, metamodern spirituality remains centered in progressive developments of and radically novel innovations to religion. Here I foreground and recall these efforts in the desire to reconnect our community to its essential insights about the nature and role of religion in this time between worlds. Metamodern interpretations...")
• 20:38, 6 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Institutions (Created page with " =Description= ==Planetary Institutions== Jonathan Zawada: "Blake and Gilman also propose “planetary institutions for planetary issues.” As illustrative cases, they call for a “Planetary Atmospheric Steward” (PAS) and a “Planetary Pandemics Agency” (PPA). PAS would conjoin with and enhance the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s function of increasing knowledge of the climate, including by utilizing AI’s data processing capacity...")
• 20:37, 6 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Subsidiarity (Created page with " =Description= Jonathan Zawada: "While grasping the new condition of planetarity may be a philosophical event that changes our way of seeing, it has not crossed the political and cultural threshold to the formation of a commensurate collective identity and the attendant legitimacy required for effective agency at the level it understands. The primary contradiction as yet unreconciled is how to square the weighty centrifugal pull of tribalized identity with the centrip...")
• 20:30, 6 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Three Great Decenterings of Humanity (Created page with " =Discussion= Jonathan Zawada: "The concept of Planetarity describes a new condition in which humans recognize not only that we are not above and apart from “nature,” but that we are only beginning to understand the complexities of our interdependencies with planetary systems. “If Copernicus’s heliocentrism represented the First Great Decentering, displacing the Earth from the center of the heavens, and Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection...")
• 18:21, 6 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Web of Life (Created page with "'''* Book: The Web o Life. Frithfof Capra. 1996''' URL = https://archive.org/details/weboflifenewscie00capr =Description= "During the past twenty-five years, scientists have challenged conventional views of evolution and the organization of living systems and have developed new theories with revolutionary philosophical and social (Text sourced from ) implications. Fritjof Capra has been at the forefront of this revolution. In The Web of Life, Capra offers a brillian...")
• 17:38, 6 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Valocracy Manifesto (Created page with " * Manifesto: '''* The Valocracy Manifesto. Rafael Castaneda.''' URL = https://castacrypto.notion.site/Valocracy-Manifesto-f1ca6d59fad54ab9a8aa15924026a05f "Valocracy is initially thought to leverage digital communities that want to be economically sustainable. In particular, communities that are sprawling within the Web 3 movement, as several of these communities comprise people that are dissatisfied with traditional economic, social, and political arrangements...")
• 18:56, 5 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Geoffrey West on the Scaling Laws of the Human Exoskeleton (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my9a9Ftr7ek =Description= Geoffrey West: "Metabolism and the Hidden Laws of Biology" | The Great Simplification : "On this episode, physicist Geoffrey West joins Nate to discuss his decades of work on metabolic scaling laws found in nature and how they apply to humans and our economies. As we think about the past and future of societies, there are patterns that emerge independently across cultures in terms of resource use and...")
• 12:33, 5 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital (Created page with " =Discussion= ==What is ‘the digital’?== Daniel Miller: "No attempt to define ‘the digital’ should go unchallenged. The definition that will be used for the purposes of this essay will be everything that can be reduced to the outcome of binary coding (Miller & Horst 2012). There are several alternatives. Some might focus more on the rise of cybernetic systems,[1] while others concentrate upon a separate online world termed ‘virtual’ (e.g. Boellstorff, Nard...")
• 12:13, 5 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Protecting Commons Against Cooptation (Created page with "=Discussion= From the Stroud Commons's, Dave Darby: "Here are the main ways that the commons economy will be much more difficult to co-opt: * If commons groups can buy land / houses etc. not by borrowing or selling shares, but by selling future-use vouchers (use-credit obligations), they can be debt-free, which can reduce risk and increase rewards for investors. Ultimately, they won’t need to use bank-issued money either. Credit clearing schemes can reduce the n...")
• 06:37, 5 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Valocracy (Created page with " =Description= Danimim: "Valocracy': A novel and structured social, economic, and political framework that attempts to leverage blockchain technology in order to create new forms of organizations with the goal of empowering communities along with their individuals and their combined efforts." - Casta [https://mirror.xyz/blockful.eth/Ht7raeMRhVNg64X-uHJ3vowmox2Dx8_OPMWVWPnkVyI] When we talk about efforts, both combined and individual, we need to chart a path that deliv...")
• 19:45, 4 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Disparate Impact (Created page with " =Contextual Quote= " “disparate impact,”: a once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world. Any traditional standard of behavior or achievement that impedes exact racial proportionality in any enterprise is now presumed racist. Medical school admissions tests, expectations of scientific accomplishment in the award of research grants, the enforcement of the criminal law—all are under assault, because they have a “disparate impact” on underreprese...")
• 09:36, 4 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evolution of the Venus Project (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBSDmuRFyNg =Description= "Utopia isn't some final destination where problems no longer exist -- it's a constantly evolving process of self-evaluation and social cooperation. Jacque Fresco understood that when he and Roxanne Meadows started The Venus Project, introducing so many of us to the idea of a resource-based economy, and the ability to engineer our way out of our crises. Roxanne joins us on today's episode, along with...")
• 09:13, 4 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Max Scheler's Hierarchy of Values (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWb5BW26YxI =Description= "Scheler developed a phenomenology of value and helped found a unique approach to ethics known as material value ethics. This video introduces material value ethics, explains how he applied the phenomenological approach to value, and outlines the ordered hierarchy of values that came from this." Category:Webcasts Category:Relational Category:P2P Ethics ")
• 18:45, 3 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evolution of Consciousness (Created page with "'''* Book: EVOLUTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS. HUMAN SYSTEMS IN TRANSITION. By Erich Jantsch and Conrad Hal Waddington.''' URL = https://archive.org/details/evolutionconscio00jant =Description= "Evolution and Consciousness is one of the first, still rare, truly transdisciplinary books: it deals with a totality, not a sector of it. Therefore, it defies any disciplinary labeling. It is a scientific book, yet also deals with topics until now reserved for books of mysticism and...")
• 12:51, 3 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nikolas Berdyaev on the Five Historical Periods of Humanity, as Related to Nature and Technology (Created page with " =Discussion= By Alexei Anisin: In the final years before his passing (the late 1940s), Berdyaev observed that humanity was set to experience a crisis of a new totality, a crisis that had hitherto never been seen. The crisis was believed to be based on the onset of a profound lack of balance between spirituality with relation to political organization and modern technology (Berdyaev 1952, 48). It would emerge in the latter half of the t...")
• 12:33, 3 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nikolai Berdyaev (Created page with " See: Nicholas Berdjaev ")
• 12:31, 3 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page How Berdyaev Foresaw Our Reliance on Machines (Created page with " '''* HUMANITY AND THE DISRUPTION OF THE COSMOS: HOW BERDYAEV FORESAW OUR RELIANCE ON MACHINES. By Alexei Anisin. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 3, 2021''' URL = https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/916/1646 =ABSTRACT= "'''In his final work, the Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar (1952), Nikolai Berdyaev categorized five historical periods on the relationship between human...")
• 10:53, 3 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Public Interest Technology Group (Created page with "'''= "a loosely organized group of individuals who self-identify as public-interest technologists, or are otherwise working on and interested in, issues at the intersection of technology, rights, equity and advocacy".''' URL = https://pitg.gitlab.io/ =Description= "The Public Interest Technology Group (PITG) is a loosely organized group of individuals who self-identify as public-interest technologists, or are otherwise working on and interested in, issues at the inte...")
• 18:17, 2 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Sustainable Samothraki Association (Created page with " '''= active on the Greek island of Samothraki''' URL = http://sustainable-samothraki.net/l =Description= "The association “Sustainable Samothraki” came into life in order to cover the need of a group of local residents to improve their quality of life on the island and address, to the degree possible, the current socio-economic and environmental problems. A key factor in this process has been the contact with Prof. Marina Fischer-Kowalski from the Vienna Institut...")
• 18:07, 2 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Biofields (Created page with " =Description= Arran Gare: "There are other radical developments in theoretical biology associated with efforts to takes eriously the implications of field theory. Alexander Gurwitsch continued to develop his ideas, and his research program was never completely abandoned. In a book published in English in 1970, A.S. Presman demonstrated impressive results of research in the Soviet Union and elsewhere on the role of electromagnetic fields in biological processes (Bisch...")
• 17:56, 2 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nature of Civilizations (Created page with " '''* Book: Matthew Melko. The Nature of Civilizations (1969)''' URL = =Description= "=Publications= Andrew Targowski: "Matthew Melko, in his book The Nature of Civilizations (1969), defined some elements of a basic model of civilizations, such as their components (outlook, aesthetics, society, economics, government, international) and developmental stages (crystallization, transition, complete disintegration, ossification (a freezing at a crystal stage) an...")
• 17:54, 2 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Matthew Melko (Created page with " =Publications= Andrew Targowski: "Matthew Melko, in his book The Nature of Civilizations (1969), defined some elements of a basic model of civilizations, such as their components (outlook, aesthetics, society, economics, government, international) and developmental stages (crystallization, transition, complete disintegration, ossification (a freezing at a crystal stage) and developmental macro-phases of feudal system, state system, imperial system, which he analy...")
• 17:49, 2 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Oscillations in Biology (Created page with "=Discussion- Arran Gare: "Many theoretical biologists allude to the role played by oscillations in generating and maintaining order in organisms. As previously noted, this was an important dimension of Waddington’s research program. However, even in the case of Goodwin, this was pushed into the background and was not a focus of his interest, although it was not forgotten. However, the importance of oscillations and their entrainment has been rediscovered in one speci...")
• 09:51, 2 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Municipal Quadratic Funding Initiative - Split, Croatia (Created page with " =Description= "The city of Split, Croatia is piloting an innovative new system for deciding how to fund municipal infrastructure projects. Called "quadratic funding," the mechanism aims to fairly account for both public and private preferences when allocating limited budget resources. A coalition of organizations including BlockSplit, Funding the Commons, Gitcoin, and the City of Split launched the Municipal Quadratic Funding Initiative in September 2023. The project...")
• 12:40, 1 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Rise of Neo-Integrative Worldviews (Created page with " '''* The rise of neo-integrative worldviews. Towards a rational spirituality for the coming planetary civilization? Roland Benedikter and Markus Molz.''' URL = https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/Rise-of-Neo-Integrative-Worldviews-1.pdf =Description= "This chapter provides an introductory overview of contemporary developments in the field of worldviews related to neo-integrative efforts. The current constellation in the European-Western hemispher...")
• 06:45, 1 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page New Technologies of Political Repression (Created page with " '''* Article: The New Technologies of Political Repression: A New Case for Arms Control? By Steve Wright. Philosophy and Social Action, 17 (3-4) July-December 1991''' URL = https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/46523072.pdf =Description= "Despite the lofty rhetoric in which world leaders pay lip service to human rights and development, the stark truth is that many so-called liberal democracies are helping tyrannical regimes industrialise repression. Future historians wil...")
• 06:34, 1 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecological Degradation Past and Present (Created page with " '''* Book: Ecological Degradation Past and Present. A Trilogy. SING C. CHEW. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008''' URL = https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780759112032/Ecological-Degradation-Past-and-Present-A-Trilogy =Description= "In his trilogy of environmental studies — # World Ecological Degradation, # The [Recurring Dark Ages]], and # Ecological Futures — Sing Chew '''surveys 5,000 years of human history and finds a distinctive, recurring pattern: Civilizations that ama...")
• 06:29, 1 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Arnold Toynbee as a Process Thinker and Historian (Created page with " '''* Article: ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE PROCESS OF CIVILIZATIONS. By Daniel A. Dombrowski. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 17, no. 3, 2021''' URL = https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/966/1627 =Description= From the abstract "It will serve us well, I think, to reconsider a thinker who thought long and hard about the rise and fall of civilizations in the past, Arnold Toynbee. It will be the purpose of the...")
• 05:45, 1 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Clement Vidal (Created page with " = Noosphere researcher =Research= Clement Vidal: "The main focus of my research is the origin of the Universe and the far-future of intelligence, which my book is about. I co-founded a research community with John Smart exploring the idea of an Evolutionary Developmental (Evo Devo) Universe. I use the worldview concept as a framework for integrating insights from different disciplines. In my current research: * In astrobiology, I aim to help organize and develo...")
• 05:28, 1 April 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page What is the Noosphere (Created page with " '''* Article: What is the Noosphere? Planetary superorganism, major evolutionary transition and emergence. By Clément Vidal. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2024''' [https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.2997 doi] URL = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sres.2997 =Description= "The noosphere remains an underappreciated and understudied idea despite that it provides unique hope towards a positive and meaningful global integration. A core reason fo...")