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• 18:13, 6 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Brendan Graham Dempsey on Metamodernism (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO7S3FZhTzo =Description= "Layman meets again prolific metamodern author and friend of the channel, Brendan Graha_{Subscript text}m Dempsey, to talk about his latest book, "Metamodernism: Or, The Cultural Logic of Cultural Logics." In this much needed work, Brendan surveys the variety of "metamodernisms" that have emerged in recent years and, using some integrative distinctions, argues for their deep kinship and comp...")
• 11:41, 6 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Created page with "'''* Book: Inhuman Power. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism. by Nick Dyer-Witheford, Atle Mikkola Kjøsen and James Steinhoff. Pluto,''' URL = https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338606/inhuman-power/ ''"An exploration of the relationship between Marxist theory and Artificial Intelligence."'' =Description= "Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism,...")
• 09:40, 6 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Freedom in the Arts (Created page with " =Description= FREEDOM IN THE ARTS' MISSION: * Protect Artists * Protect the Arts * Protect Artistic Missions, support art institutions to uphold diverse viewpoints and maintain political impartiality (https://www.freedominthearts.com/) Category:Art Category:UK Category:Identity Politics Category:Movements Category:Culture ")
• 20:40, 5 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Makers and Takers (Created page with " '''* Books: Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business. by Rana Foroohar.''' URL = =Review= Video review via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPf6fA3HidY Category:Books Category:Economics ")
• 19:10, 5 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jaya Klara Brekke on Designing and Configuring Decentralisms (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNDhJPbJN0A =Description= "Talk given by Jaya Klara Brekke at the advaya event Alternative Economies: Decentralisation & People Power. Cryptocurrencies and "blockchain" promise to decentralise money, law, governance and much more. But what happens when concepts like decentralisation travel across political, technical and organisational fields? Which exact modes of decentralisation are encoded in blockchain protocols? What do...")
• 18:58, 5 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Montevideo Criteria of Statehood (Created page with " =Description= Office of the President, Liberland: Criteria of Statehood: "Important, but not supremely so. Statehood doesn't rest on recognition alone; rather, it is often defined by certain objective criteria that an entity must fulfil to qualify as a state. One of the most widely accepted frameworks for defining statehood is the modern declarative theory of recognition. According to this theory, recognition presents a mere declaration of the facts of statehood. Th...")
• 18:52, 5 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Parastate (Created page with " =Description= "What is a “Parastate?” A region that seeks or claims but does not have the status of a recognized independent state. Being a region means that there is a clearly defined territory. A parastate is not the same as a micronation; it presumes the working of a state or at least of some of its functions. It may lack recognition, but being called a parastate is itself a form of recognition. " (https://liberland.org/en/news/500-why-liberland-is-more-than-ju...")
• 09:06, 4 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page DAO Guilds (Created page with " =Description= A definition of guilds specific to the DAO space, by CityDAO: "Guilds are holocratically organized pools of diverse contributors and talented people from around the world who, with the guidance of facilitators, form the DAO." (https://www.citydao.io/guilds-c) Category:Labor Category:Crypto Governance ")
• 08:50, 4 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism (Created page with " Podcast via https://castbox.fm/app/castbox/player/id2228584/id523801502? Category:Politics Category:Podcasts ")
• 08:46, 4 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Zero-Knowledge Proof (Created page with " =Description= From the Wikipedia: "In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true, while avoiding conveying to the verifier any information beyond the mere fact of the statement's truth.[1] The intuition underlying zero-knowledge proofs is that it is trivial to prove the possession of certain information by simply revealing it; the c...")
• 08:41, 4 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Epistemic Security (Created page with " '''= "the resilience of a society's social epistemic systems to detrimental interference called epistemic threats".''' [https://purl.stanford.edu/bc884qy3778] =More information= * Article: Seger, E. (2023). "Should Epistemic Security Be a Priority GCR Cause Area?" in Intersections, Reinforcements, Cascades: Proceedings of the 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference. The Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://pur...")
• 13:58, 3 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page James Fowler's Stages of Faith (Created page with " =Description= From the Wikipedia: In "his book Stages of Faith (1981), .. he sought to develop the idea of a developmental process in "human faith". These stages of faith development were along the lines of Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development. In the book, Fowler describes 6 stages of development. Stage 0 – "Primal or Undifferentiated" faith (birth to 2 years), is characterized by an early learning of...")
• 08:41, 3 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mihnea Tanasescu on Ecocene Politics (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA9291yHo6s =Description= "Olave Nduwanje talks to VUB-researcher Mihnea Tanasescu about his book 'Ecocene Politics'. In this video (20') you'll learn more about the chance (unexpected events), change (lack of stability) and locality (diferentially across the globe) of ecological processes, the terror of Gaia and why hope is not necessary for creating a better future. This interview is part of A Series of More-Than-Human Enco...")
• 08:29, 3 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tribalized Moral Warfare (Created page with " =Description= John Robb applies the concept here to the Israel-Hamas conflict in 2023: "The reason for this sudden shift is the rise of tribalized and networked moral warfare. Until recently, Israel was largely unopposed in its ability to wage moral warfare, both on and offline. It was able, with the support of its diaspora, to control the flow of information and the moral framing of its wars, and any attempt to generate a wage moral warfare in opposition to Israel...")
• 09:39, 2 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Anarchist Cybernetics (Created page with "'''* Book: Anarchist Cybernetics. Control and Communication in Radical Politics. By Thomas Swann. Bristol University Press / Policy Press, 2021.''' URL = https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/anarchist-cybernetics =Description= "From Occupy, to the Indignados and the Arab Spring, the uprisings that marked the last decade ignited a re-emergence of participatory democracy as a political ideal within organizations. This pioneering book introduces cybernetic thinking to...")
• 13:25, 1 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Universal Basic Income Token - Proof of Humanity (Created page with " =Description= by Vincent Munene: "Universal Basic Income (UBI) are tokens used to reward users of the Proof of Humanity (PoH) project. PoH ensures users on the internet are real humans and not bots. The PoH system uses social verification that includes video submission, in order to create a Sybil-proof list of humans. The system comes in handy when developers want to prevent sybil attacks on their protocols. Most blockchains use different methods to mitigate Sybil a...")
• 16:59, 31 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page COHERE - Finnish Study on Transgender Health (Created page with " URL = https://segm.org/sites/default/files/Finnish_Guidelines_2020_Minors_Unofficial%20Translation.pdf =Description= By Riittakerttu Kaltiala: "In June of 2020 a major event happened in my field. Finland’s national medical body, COHERE, released its findings and recommendations regarding youth gender transition. It concluded that the studies touting the success of the “gender-affirming” model were biased and unreliable—systematically so in some cases. The...")
• 11:09, 31 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Future Histories of Coordination Economics (Created page with " Podcast directory via https://futurehistories-international.com/ =Description= "Future Histories is a predominantly German language podcast. However, since there's an English episode sparkled in once in a while, we created an English-only RSS feed and homepage to make things easier for our international audience." =Directory= Season 2: 17. September 2023 S02E55 Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism 23. July 2023 S02E51 Silvia Federici on Progress, Reproduction and...")
• 17:51, 30 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Daniel Saros on Using Information Technology for Socialist Construction (Created page with " Podcast via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbcuLrWUNaY =Description= "In depth interview with Daniel E. Saros on "Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital". While many are unsatisfied with capitalism and critique it in highly sophisticated ways, there are few concrete proposals for a socialist mode of production that could replace the capitalist one. Daniel E. Saros has developed such a proposal in his book "Information Technology and Socialist Construction...")
• 12:39, 30 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecocene Politics (Created page with " '''* Book: Ecocene Politics. By Mihnea Tănăsescu. Open Book Publishers. 2022.''' URL = https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0274 =Description= David Bollier: "Mihnea Tănăsescu, a brilliant Romanian-born, Belgium-based academic, urges that we ... recognize this geological era of Earth as the Ecocene. Locked in our anthropocentric bubble, we humans have failed to see that we are deeply entangled with nature and not separate and superior to it. I...")
• 12:30, 30 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mihnea Tănăsescu on Ecocene Politics (Created page with " Podcast via https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/mihnea-tanasescu-on-the-need-for-ecocene-politics =Description= David Bollier: "Mihnea Tănăsescu, a brilliant Romanian-born, Belgium-based academic, urges that we ... recognize this geological era of Earth as the Ecocene. Locked in our anthropocentric bubble, we humans have failed to see that we are deeply entangled with nature and not separate and superior to it. If humanity is to survive, it will have to...")
• 11:18, 30 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Disassembling the Blockchain Trust Machine (Created page with " '''* PhD thesis: Disassembling the Trust Machine, three cuts on the political matter of blockchain. By Jaya Klara Brekke. Geography department of Durham University UK, 2019.''' URL = http://distributingchains.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DisassemblingTrustMachine_Brekke2019.pdf =Description= "Distributing Chains is a PhD research project by Jaya Klara Brekke and was driven by the question of what matters politically in blockchain technology? By “matters” wha...")
• 07:27, 29 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jaya Klara Brekke, Benjamin Seibel et al. on Cryptoeconomics (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9TMBdgWE6Y =Description= This is a the recording of a panel I organized and moderated in Febuary 2020 as part of my research fellowship at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. The panel critically discusses the expansion of cryptoeconomics into an 'art of government'. The panelists are: - Jaya Klara Brekke (Post-Doc Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University) - Benjamin Seibel (Director of t...")
• 05:33, 29 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Becommoning Design Framework (Created page with " =Characteristics= Tomor, Zsuzsanna and de Waal, Martin: "We present our ‘becommoning’ design framework drawn on the findings from the literature review. The framework describes three main aspects of the becommoming process, each consisting of two or more ‘building blocks’. Together they provide an overview of elements that prospective commoners need to design or arrange in order to start off their initiative. These aspects can be more broadly related to common...")
• 04:59, 29 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Metamodern View of Science (Created page with " =Characteristics= Zachary Stein: " Here I offer a partial and augmented version of Freinacht’s characterization of what philosophers must embrace under the emerging conditions of metamodern society (Freinacht, 2017 pp. 364-366): METAMODERN VIEW OF SCIENCE  To respect science as an indispensable form of knowing.  To see that science is always contextual and truth always tentative; that reality always holds deeper truths. All that we think is real w...")
• 04:52, 29 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decent Living Standards (Created page with " =Discussion= Tim Parrique: ''- “Decent Living Standards (DLS) serves as a socio-economic benchmark as it views human welfare not in relation to consumption but rather in terms of services which together help meet human needs (e.g. nutrition, shelter, health, etc.), recognising that these service needs may be met in many different ways (with different emissions implications) depending on local contexts, cultures, geography, available technologies, social preferences,...")
• 04:47, 29 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Polluter Elite (Created page with " =Discussion= Tim Parrique: "The “polluter elite” is a term coined by Dario Kenner when launching a database of rich people holding significant amounts of shares in polluting companies (see Carbon Inequality: The Role of the Richest in Climate Change). The climate problem with wealth is not only a matter of lifestyle but also of investment. Wealthy individuals only consume part of their income, the rest being invested in various projects, many of them disastrous fo...")
• 04:44, 29 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Saturation Hypothesis (Created page with " =Description= Tim Parrique: ''“Beyond a threshold, increased material consumption is not closely correlated with improvements in human progress.”'' "This is called the saturation hypothesis (also the Easterlin Paradox or the wellbeing-consumption paradox), which is summarised elsewhere in Chapter 5: “vital dimensions of human well-being correlate with consumption, but only up to a threshold” (p.19). If you need to go somewhere and you suddenly get access to...")
• 09:41, 28 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page DAO-as-a-Service Platforms (Created page with "=Status= "In the last few years, the adoption of DAOs has increased spectacularly: as of July 2023, 7M DAO members are managing $21 billion in crypto-assets within 13 000 DAOs.1 The rise of several DAO-as-a-service platforms in recent years has facilitated this rapid growth. These platforms simplify the deployment of DAOs on public blockchains by offering customizable templates that empower users to create their own DAO. They enhance community interactions and reduce th...")
• 08:45, 28 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Sky Meadow Institute (Created page with "=Description= Brendan Graham Dempsey: "an organizational effort based out of the 115-acre organic farm and retreat center I run called Sky Meadow. The Institute will become the new programming container for existing and novel efforts aimed at promoting the application of relational thinking (e.g., systems and process thought, complexity science, emergentism, etc.) to the things that matter most (e.g., religion, politics, ecology, etc.)." (https://brendangrahamdempsey....")
• 08:26, 28 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Zachary Stein on the Metaphysics of Eros (Created page with " '''* Article: Love in a Time Between Worlds: On the Metamodern “Return” to a Metaphysics of Eros. By Zachary Stein. INTEGRAL REVIEW  August 2018  Vol. 14, No. 1''' URL = http://integral-review.org/issues/vol_14_no_1_stein_love_in_a_time_between_worlds.pdf =Abstract= " Modernity is based on a critique and abandonment of premodern forms of metaphysics, while postmodernity has only deepened critiques of metaphysical truth claims further. This has create...")
• 06:22, 28 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Source AI Framework (Created page with " =Example= "[https://zenml.io/ ZenML] wants to be the glue that makes all the open-source AI tools stick together. This open-source framework lets you build pipelines that will be used by data scientists, machine-learning engineers and platform engineers to collaborate and build new AI models. The reason ZenML is interesting is that it empowers companies so they can build their own private models." (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/23/zenml-empowers-companies-to-build-th...")
• 07:00, 27 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics (Created page with " Podcast via https://castbox.fm/app/castbox/player/id2228584/id540670741 Category:Mutual Coordination Category:Podcasts Category:Cybernetics ")
• 05:43, 27 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Szabo's Law of Blockchain Governance (Created page with " =Discussion= Vlad Zamfir: "I’m naming this crypto law after Nick Szabo, since I am pretty convinced that he created it, popularized it, and brought it into crypto law. I’m sorry if I’m missing anyone else who deserves credit for it, but I’m just going to assume that Nick is responsible so I can keep my sentences short. Szabo’s law is simple: Do not implement changes to the blockchain protocol unless the changes are required for the purpose of technical main...")
• 05:35, 27 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page War Against the Commons (Created page with " '''* Book: The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism. By Ian Angus.''' URL = =Excerpt= Ian Angus: "Getting a private enclosure act passed was only the beginning: the land still had to be divided and allocated, and landlords and capitalist farmers took property very seriously indeed. To ensure that the interests of property were respected, decisions were made by an independent commission, usually three people: one named by...")
• 12:33, 26 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Energy Flows and the Self-Organization of Societies as Dissipative Structures (Created page with " '''* Article: Energy flows and the self-organization of societies as dissipative structures. By François RODDIER and Mireille RODDIER. N° 111 - Juillet 2023 - Énergie et Sociétés''' URL = https://www.annales.org/re/2023/resumes/juillet/03-re-resum-FR-AN-juillet-2023.html =Abstract= "Complex system studies have shown that, under a sufficient flow of energy, dissipative structures appear and self-organize into periodic oscillations characteristic not only of Carn...")
• 16:06, 25 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mette Böll on Cultivating Generative Social Fields (Created page with " Podcast via https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/emerge/episodes/Mette-Boll---Cultivating-Generative-Social-Fields-e53jko Category:Relational Category:Podcasts Category:Facilitation ")
• 13:08, 25 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Positive vs Normative Techno-Optimism (Created page with " =Discussion= Noah Smith: "Positive techno-optimism is basically the opposite of stagnationism. In recent years, a number of thinkers have started to say that humanity has basically picked the low-hanging fruit of what the Universe can do, and that future innovation will get a lot more expensive — or even slow to a trickle. Positive techno-optimism says that no, there’s still a lot of low-hanging fruit, and relative to our total GDP it’s still not that expensive...")
• 11:09, 25 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Participatory Planning Experiment in Kerala State, 1996 - India (Created page with " =Description= From the Wikipedia: "People's Plan Campaign, held in 1996 in Kerala State, was an experiment in decentralization of powers to local governments with focus on local planning. Kerala State lies in the south-west part of India. In India's Ninth Five-Year Plan, each state within the national federation was expected to draw up its own annual plan and the People's Plan was an offshoot of it. In the beginning of the ninth plan, the Government of Kerala took a...")
• 00:29, 24 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Impact of Human Consciousness on Evolution (Created page with " =Discussion= "if applied evolutionary science is possible, it means that evolution itself can indeed be deliberate, intentional, purposeful, calculated, planned, and volitional." Steven C. Hayes: '''* Impact of Human Consciousness on Evolution''' Symbolic learning is another step forward in the evolution of consciousness because with this repertoire of relational responding we can respond to the past as the symbolically constructed future in the present. Only a...")
• 00:27, 24 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Human Symbolic Learning (Created page with " =Discussion= "if applied evolutionary science is possible, it means that evolution itself can indeed be deliberate, intentional, purposeful, calculated, planned, and volitional." Steven C. Hayes: '''* Human Symbolic Learning''' By 12-16 months, a normally developing human infant who has learned that an object (say, a rubber duck) has a name ("duckie") will orient toward the object when hearing the name, without specific training to do so. Furthermore, if the rub...")
• 00:25, 24 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evolution of Consciousness from Operant Learning to Human Symbolic Learning (Created page with " =Discussion= "if applied evolutionary science is possible, it means that evolution itself can indeed be deliberate, intentional, purposeful, calculated, planned, and volitional." Steven C. Hayes: "The etymology of the word conscious points to its central quality: these are actions that occur "with knowledge." Stripped to the bone, consciousness can be thought of simply as the ability to respond to oneself and the environment and the regularities within and between...")
• 07:10, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Basic Principles of War Propaganda (Created page with " '''* Book: The Basic Principles of War Propaganda. Anne Morelli.''' URL = =Description= From the Wikipedia: "The basic principles of war propaganda (Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre) is a monograph by Anne Morelli published in 2001. It has not been translated into English. The subtitle recommends its "usability in case of cold, hot or lukewarm war" (Utilisables en cas de guerre froide, chaude ou tiède). The ten "commandments" of propaganda which An...")
• 03:37, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pro-Female Bias in Evaluation of Scientific Findings (Created page with " =Statistics= Emil Kirkegaard: "In science too, women are favored. Research findings that favor women are rated more favorably despite identical research designs. That is to say, there is a pro-female bias in evaluation of research. Bayesionally, this reflects people’s existing beliefs that women are actually better, thus leading to higher standards for pro-male findings (same idea as Sagan’s dictum extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence). Bo Winegard...")
• 03:28, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Shift in Gender Perceptions over Time (Created page with " =Statistics= "This meta-analysis integrated 16 nationally representative U.S. public opinion polls on gender stereotypes (N = 30,093 adults), extending from 1946 to 2018, a span of seven decades that brought considerable change in gender relations, especially in women’s roles. In polls inquiring about communion (e.g., affectionate, emotional), agency (e.g., ambitious, courageous), and competence (e.g., intelligent, creative), respondents indicated whether each trait...")
• 02:35, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs moved page Relationship Between Cognitive Complexifaction and the Level of Cultural Evolution of Societies to Relationship Between Cognitive Complexification and the Level of Cultural Evolution of Societies (Misspelled title)
• 02:33, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Relationship Between Cognitive Complexifaction and the Level of Cultural Evolution of Societies (Created page with " =Discussion= Brendan Graham Dempsey: "Later work by developmental psychologists such as Robert Kegan of Harvard University has yielded similar, corroborative findings at the individual scale with his Constructive Developmental Theory (CDT), while research by Ronald Inglehart and the World Values Survey project provide over 30 years of contemporary empirical data at the cultural scale (see, for instance, Inglehart’s book Cultural Evolution). '''Given the relatio...")
• 02:16, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page James Meade on Citizen's Trust for a Property-Owning Democracy (Created page with " =Discussion= Stuart White: "In 1964 the British economist, James Meade, who went on to receive a Nobel prize, published a short book entitled Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property. Meade had worked as an advisor to the 1945-50 Labour government and he was in later years to serve as an advisor to the SDP/Liberal Alliance. His ideas fit into a wider current of radical thinking about property which ran through the centre-left of British politics in the mid-...")
• 02:12, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Citizen's Trust (Created page with " =Discussion= ==James Meade on Citizen's Trust for a Property-Owning Democracy== "In 1964 the British economist, James Meade, who went on to receive a Nobel prize, published a short book entitled Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property. Meade had worked as an advisor to the 1945-50 Labour government and he was in later years to serve as an advisor to the SDP/Liberal Alliance. His ideas fit into a wider current of radical thinking about property which ran...")
• 01:53, 23 October 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nancy Fraser on Progressive Neoliberalism, and Left and Right Populism, as Reactions to the Hegemonic Crisis (Created page with " =Discussion= Nick Dyer-Whiteford: "Nancy Fraser (2017) writes of a “hegemonic crisis” in US politics, produced by the collision of three projects: the “progressive neoliberalism of the Obama administration, and two competing “populisms”— “reactionary” (Trump), and “progressive” (Sanders). These projects can be seen as responses to changes in the class composition of capital, changes in large part arising from the new circulatory paths of US capita...")