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• 08:03, 25 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Rodrigo Nunes on a Theory of Political Organization (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuIkfWs5_t4 =Description= "How do we organise in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign? For something so often described as essential, political organisation remains a surprisingly under-theorised field. Nunes redefines the terms of organisational theory, and argues that organisation must be understood as always supposing a diverse ecology of different initiatives and organisational forms. Drawing from a wide ar...")
• 08:01, 25 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal (Created page with " '''* Book: Neither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization. by Rodrigo Nunes.''' URL = =Description= "How do we organise in a world after both Occupy and the Sanders campaign? For something so often described as essential, political organisation remains a surprisingly under-theorised field. Nunes redefines the terms of organisational theory, and argues that organisation must be understood as always supposing a diverse ecology of different initia...")
• 07:53, 25 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Erick Brimen on Prospera (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fn4WxKbNDI =Content= 1:02 - From ending poverty to catalyzing prosperity 3:01 - Building Prospera 4:21 - The governance platform 5:56 - What Prospera has achieved so far 8:16 - Why Roatan is strategically chosen for Prospera 9:45 - Expanding through network communities 10:09 - Turning online communities into physical locations 10:13 - Conclusion: Inviting you to Prospera =More information= * Prospera is a network of...")
• 16:32, 24 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jason Benn on the Neighborhood Co-Living Community in San Francisco (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gLRJpS-FJo =Contents= 1:00 - Describing the Neighborhood's mission 2:00 - Sharing the success of the co-living concept 3:00 - Explaining the challenges of creating co-living communities 4:00 - The idea of using unconferences as an approach 5:00 - Discussing the challenges of organizing an unconference 7:00 - Using AI to match people for meaningful conversations 9:00 - The creation of the Treehouse co-living community 1...")
• 16:24, 24 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Alex Grintsvayg on the CABIN Globally Networked City (Created page with "Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8lliIqAfs Great explanation of the Cabin project, "a community of thousands of internet friends building a network city". =Contents= 0:07 - Introduction to Cabin and its mission 1:00 - Explanation of what a "network city" is 2:01 - History of Cabin and its evolution 3:07 - Explanation of how Cabin combines physical and digital elements 4:39 - Overview of Cabin's online components 6:23 - Invitation to other communities...")
• 10:26, 23 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Crypto Nomads (Created page with " =Description= Knowledge Ridge, Kirti Sharma: "Crypto nomad is a class of individuals who prefer borderless money. They can be classified into two categories. The first category is of crypto trading-savvy people, but unable to trade in their home country due to regulatory pressures/restrictions. Such people set up offices in locations (other than their country) which are pro-crypto and run the business from there. .. The second category of people are the ones who use...")
• 10:13, 23 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Understanding the Role of Polarization in Times of Transition (Created page with " =Source= Written for the German-language Evolve Magazine at the request of Mike Kautschke, in early 2023. URL = http://www.evolve-magazin.de/ =Text= Michel Bauwens: "Why the polarization, and can we overcome it ? Most of us will have noted that our societies are increasingly polarized, and social media are regularly blamed for this state of affairs. But think of the 1930s in pre-war Germany, then it was radio, or the religious civil wars at the time of the Ref...")
• 02:19, 22 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Public AI Network (Created page with " '''= "a coalition working to bring about Public AI".''' URL = https://publicai.network/ =Description= "The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI. Our aims are to: # Ensure public capacity-building is part of the conversation about AI design, policy, and funding # Make it easier to build public AI by coordinating research efforts in the ML community # Support policymakers and technical teams seeking to implement public AI " (https://...")
• 02:15, 22 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Public AI (Created page with " '''= "refers to publicly accessible AI models funded, provisioned, and governed by governments or other public bodies on behalf of their citizens".''' URL = https://publicai.network/ =Description= Public AI Network: "Public AI in this context refers to publicly accessible AI models funded, provisioned, and governed by governments or other public bodies on behalf of their citizens. Public AI is a concept with strong political, ethical, and economic underpinnings. Th...")
• 06:21, 21 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Portugal Participatory Budget (Created page with " =Description= OPS: "The Portugal Participatory Budget (PPB) is a democratic, direct and universal process that allows civil society to decide on public investments in different governmental areas. And it is deliberative, which means that Portuguese people are presenting investment proposals and they will be the ones to choose, through voting, which projects are to be implemented, in a very transparent and open way. It is the first participatory budget of the world d...")
• 05:38, 21 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Created page with " '''* Book: Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic. By Camila Vergara. Princeton University Press, 2020.''' URL = https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691207537/systemic-corruption =Description= "This provocative book reveals how the majority of modern liberal democracies have become increasingly oligarchic, suffering from a form of structural political decay first conceptualized by ancient philosophers. Systemic Corruptio...")
• 11:38, 20 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Community Motive (Created page with " =Description= Tom Christoffel: " "Community motive" has not been adequately recognized. The "profit motive" that works in the civil markets made possible by self-governed communities, has been made to appear as the first cause of wealth. Yet, in one's life, the most important things one does are not for profit, but for family and community, to ensure their perpetuation. Both work together now, though in the beginning, there was only community motive, since survival an...")
• 10:33, 20 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Global Geocode Library (Created page with " =Description= Tom Christoffel: "The system is based on a geocode scheme set up for earth that focuses on established political boundaries as a basis for regional grouping of nations, states and localities. It is decimal system based to take advantage of the sort criteria for numbers in computers. It utilized the Sector Group and Region codes of the United Nations and ISO. Geographic information system technology does not solve the problem, but its tools can be used w...")
• 10:29, 20 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Community Motive vs Profit Motive (Created page with " =Contextual Quote= " "'''Community motive'''" has not been adequately recognized. The ''"profit motive"'' that works in the civil markets made possible by self-governed communities, has been made to appear as the first cause of wealth. Yet, in one's life, the most important things one does are not for profit, but for family and community, to ensure their perpetuation. Both work together now, though in the beginning, there was only community motive, since survival and...")
• 10:21, 20 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Poppy Coburn on the Political Role of the Charity-Industrial Complex (Created page with " Podcast via https://www.louiseperry.co.uk/p/the-zoomer-right-poppy-coburn-maiden =Description= "British journalist Poppy Coburn, an opinion editor at the Telegraph and also at the Conservative Reader. We spoke about Poppy's investigations into the so-called 'charity industrial complex' and what that tells us about how power really operates in contemporary Britain." Category:Politics Category:UK ")
• 09:46, 20 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Credit Commons Protocol (Created page with " =Description= Mutual Credit Services: "The Credit Commons Protocol defines a shared ledger through which participants can perform mutual credit accounting for exchange in any agreed unit (such as national fiat currency, hours, or kWh of electricity). It can be applied recursively, meaning that ledger groups can voluntarily federate into a nested structure that can be visualised as a fractal-like ‘tree’. This fractal structure mirrors that of sociocracy, suggesti...")
• 09:13, 20 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page W3C Credentials Community Group (Created page with " = "to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification, and user control of credentials". URL = https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/ =Description= "The mission of the W3C Credentials Community Group is to explore the creation, storage, presentation, verification, and user control of credentials. We focus on a verifiable credential (a set of claims) created by an issuer about a subject—a person, group, or thing—and seek solutions inclusive of approa...")
• 09:04, 20 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Public Goods Alliance (Created page with " =Description= From the Wikipedia: "In mid-2019 the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation published The Age of Digital Interdependence. The report recommended advancing a global discussion about how stakeholders could work better together to realize the potential of digital technologies for advancing human well-being. Recommendation 1B in that report states "that a broad, multi-stakeholder alliance, involving the UN, create a platform for sha...")
• 14:28, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commission on Nomadic Peoples (Created page with " '''= "part of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)".''' URL = https://www.waunet.org/iuaes/comm/cnp/ Category:Movements Category:Neotraditional ")
• 14:25, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Enough Should Be the Central Concept in Economics (Created page with " '''* Book: Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill. Berrett-Koehler / Earthscan,''' URL = =Excerpt= From the foreword by Herman Daly: "Enough should be the central concept in economics. Enough means “sufficient for a good life.” This raises the perennial philosophical question: What is a good life? That is not easy to answer, but at a minimum, we can say that the current answer to “having...")
• 12:52, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page General Imagination (Created page with " =Discussion= Sean Cubitt: "We experience one another as affect, tidal forces running through us that can be intelligible, hallucinatory or physical, personal, collective and environmental by turns or simultaneously. These are the raw energies driving imagination – or restoring it – after systems theory. Think of it as projection. Pondering the projective geometry of perspective, Leibniz wrote that God sees the world absolutely, but mortals see only partially. Now...")
• 12:47, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page General Cognition (Created page with " =Discussion= ==AI can capture the General Intellect, but not General Cognition== Sean Cubitt: " This continuum of sensations and activities below the threshold of consciousness – digestion, breathing, balance and locomotion – connects everything from minds to minerals, and ensures all are permeable to one another, at the speeds of gut-flora or erosion. I’m going beyond Marie-Luise Angerer and Katherine Hayles and calling it general cognition. The immense reser...")
• 12:25, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Category:Mobile (Created page with "Items on mobile telephony and its effects. ")
• 12:13, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Category:Freedom (Created page with "Freedom as a principle or characteristic. ")
• 12:10, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Category:Freeconomy (Created page with " Projects offering free goods or services, as a matter of principle, social practice, etc .. ")
• 04:55, 19 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Public Goods (Created page with " =Description= Gitcoin: "“In economics, a "public good" refers to anything that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous, that is, people can't be barred access, and one person's use doesn't degrade another's. Clean air is an example of a naturally occurring public good, while the electric grid is a public good created by people. What are the public goods of today's industrial-knowledge society? Open source code, which supports millions of companies and independen...")
• 04:12, 18 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mutual Credit Services (Created page with " '''= "social franchise dedicated to building a global Credit Commons".''' URL = https://www.mutualcredit.services/ =Description= "Founded in 2020 to deliver the credit creation and accounting mechanisms used by the corporate and financial sectors to small businesses and communities. Access to decentralised credit systems promotes resilience, autonomy, and adaptive capacity. Groups can establish their own governance structures and then voluntarily federate, supportin...")
• 03:02, 18 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page How America Weaponized the World Economy (Created page with " '''* Book: Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy. Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, Allen Lane, 2023''' URL = =Review= Neil Sharing: "The story of how the US came to dominate the financial and technological networks that connect the world – and how they are now being weaponized – is told in an important new book by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, two US academics. There are several reasons to read their book: it is accessible, it is en...")
• 14:26, 17 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page How 8,000 Permaculture-Based Food Forests Grew Africa's Great Green Wall (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LCTVO_Y5Rs =Description= "Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Senegal to see a movement of forest gardens which are contributing to Africa's Great Green Wall. Andrew accompanies the organization Planet Wild to visit the excellent work of Trees for the Future. Planet Wild is funding the planting of 40,000 trees in this project so we are here to assess the system and report on the situation on the ground." C...")
• 18:23, 16 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Platforms and the Circulation of Workers’ Struggles (Created page with " '''* Articles: Digital Workerism: Technology, Platforms, and the Circulation of Workers’ Struggles. By Sai Englert, Jamie Woodcock, Callum Cant. Triple C, Vol 18 No 1 (2020).''' [https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1133 soi] URL = https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1133 =Abstract= "The use of digital technology has become a key part of contemporary debates on how work is changing, the future of work/ers, resistance, and organising. Workerism...")
• 18:15, 16 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Free Digital Labor as a New Form of Exploitation (Created page with " '''* Article: Free Digital Labor as a New Form of Exploitation: A Critical Analysis. By Carlo Vercellone and Antonio Di Stasio. Science & Society, Vol. 87, No. 3, July 2023''' [https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.3.334 doi] URL = https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2023.87.3.334 =Abstract= "The notion of Free Digital Labor has emerged at the center of scientific debate with the advent of platform capitalism. This notion denotes the apparently free activit...")
• 17:32, 16 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Radical Intimacies (Created page with " '''* Book: Radical Intimacies. Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities. Edited by Oliver Vodeb.''' URL = https://www.intellectbooks.com/radical-intimacies "The concept of radical intimacies is about a closeness to the world created through our relations, towards decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The political dimension involves qualities that enable alternatives to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism." =Description= "An extradisciplin...")
• 17:14, 16 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Crypto Law (Created page with "=Contextual Quote= "CryptoLaw’s (and crypto’s?) biggest failure thus far is the self-delusion that everyone’s a winner because everyone is free to write the rules of their own game, and, crucially, everyone is free to either play a given crypto game or not." - Crypto Law Review [https://medium.com/cryptolawreview/whats-your-cryptolaw-strategy-f5c24e3af4c4] =Definition= Crypto Law Review: "CryptoLaw: a cloud of legal norms, processes, institutions, and vocabul...")
• 11:11, 15 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stafford Beer’s Organizational Cybernetics (Created page with " =Discussion= Thomas Swann: "The experience of Chilean socialism under Allende will undoubtedly have limited appeal to anarchists. However sincere Allende and those around him were about improving welfare and democratising the economy, Chile remained a centralized state with a representative system of democracy. It was a far more open and free society than the one that replaced it in 1973, but it was still several steps removed from the kind of decentralized self-organ...")
• 11:06, 15 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Anarchism and the Cybernetics of Self-Organising Systems (Created page with " * Article: . By John D. McEwan. Anarchy, URL = =Discussion= ==Anarchism and the cybernetics of self-organizing systems== Thomas Swann: "By stressing the importance of local autonomy, cybernetics shows how systems can be effective and endure from one moment to the next. In social and political systems, it is not through dictatorial command and authoritarian constraint but through freedom and democracy that forms of organization can best meet their goals and remain...")
• 09:16, 14 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Rise of the West (Created page with " '''* Book: The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community. University of Chicago Press, 1963.''' URL = https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo3645507.html =Description= "The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argue...")
• 09:02, 14 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Andre Gunder Frank on the History of Going Beyond Eurocentrism in World Historical Approaches (Created page with " =Discussion= Andre Gunder Frank: "An important early attempt to go back further was The Rise of the West by William McNeill (1963) with which he can be said to have fathered contemporary world history as a field of study. He criticized Toynbee for treating world history in terms of twenty-one different civilizations, when McNeill suggested that there were only three major contributory "civilizational" streams to world history and to the rise of the West. So far so goo...")
• 14:20, 13 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jason Bradford, Andrew Millison et al. on Fossil-Free Food Systems (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb2tJXopTJA =Description= "On this Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by small-scale farmer Jason Bradford, permaculturist and documentarian Andrew Millison, regenerative agriculture activist Vandana Shiva, and regenerative farmer and educator Daniel Zetah to discuss the feasibility of a food system fully or mostly independent of fossil fuel inputs. While a non-industrialized agriculture system is certainly possible (it was t...")
• 13:59, 13 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman on the Asymmetric Nature of Global Networks (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBkL6dn2b-E "Discussion with Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell on their ... book Underground Empire: how America weaponized the world economy." Category:Network Theory Category:Webcasts Category:Geopolitics Category:Books ")
• 07:51, 13 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (Created page with " =More information= '''* Article: Mature Socialism: Design, Prerequisites, Transitions. By David Laibman. Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 45, Issue 4 [https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613412475190 doi]''' URL = https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0486613412475190 "Stadial (stage-based) theory clarifies the relation between the evolving conception of mature socialism, on the one hand, and historical experiences of central planning and “market social...")
• 07:05, 13 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Gordian Principles for the Self-Sovereign Control of Digital Assets (Created page with " =Description= The Gordian system is all about user agency & security. It's intended to support the self-sovereign control of digital assets in a way that's safe, secure, and private by enabling responsible key management, cutting through a traditionally knotty problem in Bitcoin development.. The Gordian system is built on a foundation of Principles that have been fulfilled in an Architecture that is embodied in Reference Apps and supported by Reference Libraries. (It...")
• 12:06, 12 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Blockchain Commons (Created page with " '''= "Creating Open & Interoperable, Secure & Compassionate Digital Infrastructure".''' [https://www.blockchaincommons.com/home/] URL = https://www.blockchaincommons.com/ =Description= "Welcome to Blockchain Commons: Creating Open & Interoperable, Secure & Compassionate Digital Infrastructure: "Advocating for the creation of open, interoperable, secure & compassionate digital infrastructure to enable people to control their own digital destiny and to maintain their...")
• 08:35, 12 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Simon Michaux on How Thermodynamic Realities Will Affect the Future of Mining and the Circular Economy Transition (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRGVqBScBRE =Description= "Challenges for the proposed expansion in mining to construct a non-fossil fuel system (EV's, batteries, wind turbines, solar panels, etc...)/]." Category:Thermodynamic Efficiencies Category:Webcasts ")
• 13:42, 11 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page How Community Managed Software Projects Protect Their Commons (Created page with " '''* Article: Guarding the commons: how community managed software projects protect their work. By Siobhán O’Mahony. Research Policy, Volume 32, Issue 7, July 2003, Pages 1179-1198''' URL = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733303000489 =Abstract= "Theorists often speculate why open source and free software project contributors give their work away. Although contributors make their work publicly available, they do not forfeit their rights...")
• 14:11, 9 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Autonomous Marxism (Created page with " =Description= Emanuele Leonardi: "AM can be defined as follows: from a historical point of view, the elaboration of workerism is closely linked to the conflict cycle of the 1960s and 1970s in Italy. In this context, at least a few magazines and political groups should be mentioned: Quaderni Rossi, Classe Operaia, and Rosso, on the one hand; on the other, Potere Operaio and Autonomia Operaia. From a methodological perspective, the workerist option unfolds through four...")
• 05:27, 9 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Transition Support Consortium (Created page with " =Description= "A “Common dedicated to Transition Facilitation”: "the Transition Support Consortium (TSC) (or in French CAT, for Consortium d’Accompagnement des Transitions) ... is an alliance or multilateral agreement initiated in November 2022 and formulated in March 2023 to accelerate the change in scale of transitions through support, facilitation and training in collective intelligence using dialogue and generative processes." (https://pad.lescommuns.org/TS...")
• 15:24, 8 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Liberland (Created page with " '''= ongoing Micronation under development: "located between Croatia and Serbia on the west bank of the Danube River"''' URL = https://liberland.org/ =History= "History The Free Republic of Liberland (hereinafter “Liberland”) is a sovereign state located between Croatia and Serbia on the west bank of the Danube River. On some maps, this area is referred to as “Gornja Siga”. The nearest towns are Zmajevac (Croatia) and Bački Monoštor (Autonomous Provinc...")
• 15:17, 8 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Zuzalu (Created page with " '''= self-organized community and event space around the Ethereum Foundation and related crypto movements''' URL = https://zuzalu.notion.site/ =Description= * "Mission statement: Foster a global network of communities to advance humanity by creating playgrounds at the intersection of free and open technology, health, and social innovation. What is Zuzalu, exactly? ... At its core, Zuzalu is a public good community, a pop-up city, a playground for cross-pollination...")
• 05:02, 7 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Legal Commons for the Blockchain (Created page with " =Discussion= ''"Legal frameworks that support pluralistic commons-based incentive initiatives represent our best chance at meaningfully sustainable ecological revival."'' Crypto Law Review: "What does an even broader “Law Commons” look like — far beyond narrow regimes like IP law, environmental law, the law of the sea, and so on? Here are some some concrete characteristics: * open-source geospatial mapping engines & data (e.g., OpenAR Cloud; #EthMaps); * o...")
• 05:01, 7 November 2023 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Law Commons (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Legal Commons for the Blockchain== ''"Legal frameworks that support pluralistic commons-based incentive initiatives represent our best chance at meaningfully sustainable ecological revival."'' Crypto Law Review: "What does an even broader “Law Commons” look like — far beyond narrow regimes like IP law, environmental law, the law of the sea, and so on? Here are some some concrete characteristics: * open-source geospatial mapping engines...")