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• 05:28, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Beyond Orientalism (Created page with " '''* Book: Beyond Orientalism: Essays on Cross-Cultural Encounter. By Fred Dallmayr.''' URL = https://sunypress.edu/Books/B/Beyond-Orientalism2 =Description= "Beyond Orientalism explores the confluence of contemporary Western (especially Continental) philosophy, with its focus on otherness and difference, and the ongoing process of globalization or the emergence of the "global village. " The basic question raised in the book is: What will be the prevailing life-form...")
• 05:12, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecosystem Services (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Critique== ==A critique of Ecosystem Services== Joshua Farley et al.: '''1.''' "The Ecozoic is defined as an era characterized by the mutual flourishing of humans and the rest of Nature. The field of Ecosystem Services should be dedicated to achieving this goal. However, ecosystem services (ES) are commonly defined as Nature’s benefits to people, an anthropocentric concept. Many schemes proposed to assess and value ES are market oriented, thus...")
• 05:10, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Rethinking Ecosystem Services from the Anthropocene to the Ecozoic (Created page with " '''* Article: Rethinking ecosystem services from the anthropocene to the Ecozoic: Nature’s benefits to the biotic community. By Joshua Farley , Rigo E.M. Melgar Danish Hasan Ansari, et al. Ecosystem ServicesVolume 67, June 2024, 101624''' URL = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212041624000305?dgcid=coauthor =Abstract= "'''The Ecozoic is defined as an era characterized by the mutual flourishing of humans and the rest of Nature'''. The fie...")
• 04:59, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilization Research Initiative (Created page with " = project created by Daniel Schmachtenberger, Zachary Stein and others to tackle solutions to the civilizational Metacrisis. It enfolds the Consilience Project which could be seen as the first phase. URL = https://civilizationemerging.com/ =Description= Daniel Schmachtenberger: "'''Some of the central questions being explored here''': How do we create a world that is antifragile factoring increasingly decentralized exponential technologies? What would it tak...")
• 04:22, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Notes from Below (Created page with " '''= research into the current tech worker conditions, from the UK''' =Description= From the Wikipedia: "Notes from Below is a UK-based digital magazine, founded in 2018, that publishes "workers' inquiries" and contemporary class analyses. The editors, including Jamie Woodcock and Callum Cant, have modeled their work after the Italian journal Quaderni Rossi and early surveys about working conditions conducted by Karl Marx. Through the inquiries it publishes, the maga...")
• 04:17, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Peter Turchin on the Exanding Scale of Human Society Over Time (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pCg3rzgWRU =Description= "Peter Turchin - Founder of Cliodynamics that uses mathematical modeling of historical processes. Daron Acemoglu - Economist who focuses on the role of institutions in human life. Discussion of the growth in the scale and complexity of groups over the last 10,000 years." David Sloan Wilson explains: "In the early stages of the noosphere’s evolution, the novel human attributes Teilhard enumerat...")
• 04:09, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Technology and the Worker (Created page with " '''* Special Issue: Technology and the Worker. Notes from Below, 2018''' URL = https://notesfrombelow.org/article/technology-and-the-worker =Description= From the editorial: "The aim of the issue was to explore the changes in labour relations with the increasing role of technology in our workplace. Automation, precarity caused by technology, technological objects used as tools for control or resistance—these are all among the themes we hope to address here. What a...")
• 04:02, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Micronational Summit (Created page with " =Description= "A micronational summit (also intermicronational summit, micronational convention or micro summit) is a formal gathering of micronationalists. Some also have a considerable number of media in attendance. These summits provide a place for micronationalists to meet, exchange ideas, sign treaties, and engage in other diplomatic relations. The majority of summits were held in Europe and North America. The largest micronational convention is MicroCon, which ha...")
• 03:51, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Transhumanist Technological Quest Is a Religious Quest (Created page with " =Source= * Article: TechnoCalyps: the transhumanist technological quest is a religious/spiritual quest Recovering our technological unconscious. Michel Bauwens, Nov 27, 2024 URL = =Text= Michel Bauwens: In the late 1990s, I co-produced with director Frank Theys, a 3 hour documentary called TechnoCalyps, subtitled, The Metaphysics of Technology and the End of the Human, which was an examination of the promise and peril of transhumanism. Paradoxically, at the tim...")
• 03:46, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Fate of Tribes in a Cosmo-Local World (Created page with " =Source= * Article: Beirut - Istanbul - Athens: the fate of tribes in a cosmo-local world: A more personal travelogue that starts in a Lebanese mountain community and ends up in a network nation. Michel Bauwens, Nov 19, 2023. URL = https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/beirut-istanbul-athens-the-fate-of =Text= Michel Bauwens: This is not a theoretical piece, but rather a record of my subjective experiences during a very interesting trip that brought me...")
• 03:40, 3 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Why We Need 'Crypto for Real' (Created page with " '''* Title: Why We Need ‘Crypto for Real’: A proposal to link up the open ecosystems for crypto coordination, with the real-life mutualization of provisioning systems undertaken by rapidly growing urban commons. Michel Bauwens, Nov 6, 2023''' URL = https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/why-we-need-crypto-for-real =Text= Michel Bauwens: Is there a way to link up these two growing movements, one concerned with equitable local access to urban (bioregion...")
• 04:19, 1 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (Created page with " '''* Book: Living Earth Community. Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing. Ed. by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, et al.''' URL = https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0186 =Description= "A celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together s...")
• 04:12, 1 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality (Created page with " '''* Book: African Ecological Ethics and Spirituality for Cosmic Flourishing. Edited by Stan Chu Ilo | | Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2022''' URL = https://lsri.campion.ox.ac.uk/node/1776 =Description= From the publisher: "This is '''the definitive African text on ecological ethics, African environmental spirituality, a theology of creation, and climate justice'''. The contributors to this important volume explore the common threats facing this earth our common home...")
• 02:48, 1 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Anacyclosis Institute (Created page with " '''= dedicated to the study of the Anacyclosis cycle''' URL = https://anacyclosis.org =Description= "At the Anacyclosis Institute, we believe that this ancient model (of Anacyclosis contains much truth. We also believe that the astonishing longevity of the US Constitution, specifically designed to resist the Polybian cycle, speaks to the validity of many aspects of the theory. Nevertheless, while inspired by the anacyclosis model, '''we do not believe that hu...")
• 02:38, 1 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Aurobindo on the Dangers of a of the World-State (Created page with " =Source= Excerpt: '''The Peril of the World-State. Sri Aurobindo. The Human Cycle. Section: The Ideal of Human Unity. CSWA, Vol. 25''' URL = https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-peril-of-the-world-state =Text= Aurobindo: "This then is the extreme possible form of a WorldState, the form dreamed of by the socialistic, scientific, humanitarian thinkers who represent the modern mind at its highest point of self-consciousness and are therefore able to detect the t...")
• 02:01, 1 June 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Created page with " '''* Book: How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. Eduardo Kohn''' URL = https://academic.oup.com/california-scholarship-online/book/21958 =Description= "Can forests think? Do dogs dream? This book challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, t...")
• 10:01, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Principle of Harm (Created page with " See: Democratic Implications of the Strict Principle of Harm vs the Loose Principle of Harm Category:Identity Politics ")
• 10:00, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Democratic Implications of the Strict Principle of Harm vs the Loose Principle of Harm (Created page with "=Discussion= Scott Alexander: "Liberalism is a new form of Hobbesian equilibrium where the government enforces not only a ban on killing and stealing from people you don’t like, but also a ban on tyrannizing them out of existence. This is the famous “freedom of religion” and “freedom of speech” and so on, as well as the “freedom of what happens in the bedroom between consenting adults”. The Catholics don’t try to ban Protestantism, the Protestants don...")
• 09:00, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Oswald Spengler and Friedrich Hayek on the Clash of the Three Historical Ethical Systems (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Oswald Spengler and Friedrich Hayek on the Clash of the Three Historical Ethical Systems== Alistair Crooks: "Man has evolved directly from such primate groups, and then lived for generations more in similar, simple, hierarchical groups largely controlled by the same inherited, genetically derived, protocols of our primate ancestors. Spengler describes this period of human prehistory in ‘The Decline of the West’: Life as experienced by primitiv...")
• 08:59, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Friedrich Hayek on the Three Types of Moral Beliefs (Created page with "=Excerpt= Friedrich Hayek: ( from a 1985 talk ) "Our basic problem is that we have three levels of moral beliefs. We have, in the first instance, our intuitive moral feelings, which are adapted to the small person-to-person society, where we act toward people that we know. Then we have a society run by moral traditions, which — unlike what modern rationalists believe — are not intellectual discoveries of men who designed them. They are an example of a process...")
• 07:01, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page XEC - Network of Communitarian Spaces (Created page with " '''= active in Barcelona and Catalonia, Spain.''' =Description= By Marina Pera and Sonia Bussu: "XEC has the aim '''to coordinate and defend communitarian facilities managed all over Catalonia by grassroots organisations''', based on principles of horizontal governance and mutual support. XEC covers a range of commons’ activities, from arts and cultural centres to community centres, many of which located in the city of Barcelona, such as Ateneu Popular de 9 Barris...")
• 06:59, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Can Batlló Community Centre - Barcelona (Created page with " =Description= \By Marina Pera and Sonia Bussu: "Can Batlló is a community centre run by a local grassroots organisation that brings together anti-capitalist movements, neighbourhood associations and local activists. Its organisation is based on horizontal governance and deliberation. It comprises various committees, each working on different projects to respond to the diverse interests and needs within the community. These committees come together every 15 days in an...")
• 06:57, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Community Balance Metrics (Created page with " '''= methodology used in Barcelona, Spain''' =Description= By Marina Pera and Sonia Bussu: "The Community Balance Metrics (CBM) is '''an instrument of evaluation to visualise the democratic and transformational practices of communitarian activities''' (Forné & Castro, 2022). CBM is divided into four dimensions: internal democracy, rootedness in the community, social impact and care for people and the environment. It was developed through a collaborative process betw...")
• 06:32, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona (Created page with " '''* Article: Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona. By Marina Pera and Sonia Bussu. International Journal of the Commons, Volume: 18 Issue: 1, pp. 164–176''' URL = https://thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.5334/ijc.1385 =Abstract= "This paper looks at the relational dimension of public-commons partnerships, examining its role in shaping novel practices in public administration (PA). Focusing on the role of civi...")
• 06:12, 31 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Intellectual Commons and the Law (Created page with " '''* Book: Intellectual Commons and the Law: A Normative Theory for Commons-Based Peer Production. Antonios Broumas. University of Westminster Press, 2020''' URL = =Description= =Contents= ToC: 1. Introduction 1 1.1. The Intellectual Commons at the Forefront 1 1.2. The Laws of the Intellect and the Commons of the Mind 2 1.3. World Views Inverted: Fundamental Notions of the Intellectual Commons 3 1.4. The Moral Aspects of Commons-Based Peer Production 5 1.5...")
• 13:17, 30 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Samantha Power on Creating Bioregional Funding Facilities (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCMUxRv0dkE =Description= "The Creating Bioregional Funding Ecosystems three-part series takes a candid, pragmatic, and in-depth look at the theory and practice of funding regenerative work in bioregions. Part 1 is "A Systemic Exploration." It features a presentation by Samantha Power, formerly with The World Bank and now Founder of Finance for Gaia, followed by material from Joe Brewer, Co-Founder of the Design School for...")
• 11:27, 30 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bioregioning (Created page with " '''= "from verb to ‘bioregion’; act of bringing your bioregion into existence through: grounding, connecting, celebrating, belonging."''' [https://fojournal.org/essay/contested-terrain/] =Discussion= Ellia Hubbard: "'''One of the most interesting reworkings of bioregionalism is the emerging language of bioregioning, the verb, being mobilised by activists and thinkers such as John Thackara, Isabel Carlisle and the UK Bioregional Learning Centre'''. Bioregioning m...")
• 10:27, 30 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page How Good Is Expert Political Opinion (Created page with " '''* Book: Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton University Press,''' URL = https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178288/expert-political-judgment =Description= From the publisher: "Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether the world is too complex for people to find the tools to understand political phenomena, let alone predict the future. He evaluates predictions from experts in different field...")
• 10:22, 30 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Gregory Stock on Metaman (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EQ_jTZDIyY =Description= David Sloan Wilson: "The concept of humanity merging with technology to form a global superorganism began to take shape in Gregory Stock’s mind in the 1960s, though his book Metaman wasn’t published until 1993. He was unaware of Teilhard’s writings on the evolution of the Noosphere until he was well along in development of his own ideas, but when he did read Teilhard, he was impressed by his pr...")
• 10:07, 29 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Metaman (Created page with " =History= Human Energy: "The concept of humanity merging with technology to form a global superorganism began to take shape in Gregory Stock’s mind in the 1960s, though his book Metaman wasn’t published until 1993. He was unaware of Teilhard’s writings on the evolution of the Noosphere until he was well along in development of his own ideas, but when he did read Teilhard, he was impressed by his prescience: I was going, “Oh, my God. How could somebody see tha...")
• 04:34, 29 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cosmological Natural Selection (Created page with " =Definition= From the Wikipedia: "Cosmological natural selection, also called the fecund universes, is a hypothesis proposed by Lee Smolin intended as a scientific alternative to the anthropic principle. It addresses the problem of complexity in our universe, which is largely unexplained. The hypothesis suggests that a process analogous to biological natural selection applies at the grandest of scales. Smolin published the idea in 1992 and summarized it in a book aime...")
• 10:16, 28 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Thinking (Created page with " =Interview= From an interview with the Long Now Foundation with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman, the authors of Children of a Modest Star. '''* Long Now: what (do) you mean when you talk about this concept of planetary thinking.''' '''Jonathan Blake''': I can give an overview of the book that takes on that specific question as well, because the first half of the book deals with the questions: What is planetary thinking? How did it come about? What is it in c...")
• 09:31, 28 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Global Center on AI Governance (Created page with " '''= "We're driving equitable governance regimes for AI through knowledge production and exchange".''' URL = https://www.globalcenter.ai/ Category:Research Category:Governance Category:Protocols and Algorithms Category:Movements ")
• 09:18, 28 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Guild DAOs (Created page with " =Description= Austin Wade Smith: "This '''('Found Communautarian Commons') is to be contrasted with Guild DAOs which can be defined as 'Made Associational Commons'''' because they act as associations bound by mutual affinity to a craft which the group has created or made. The poles are polemical. Virtually no entity is not already a blend, rather the dynamism occurs in their interplay. The diagonal axis which forms between Bioregional DAOs and Guild DAOs is one of mu...")
• 09:18, 28 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bioregional DAOs vs Guild DAOs (Created page with " =Typology= Austin Wade Smith: "This '''('Found Communautarian Commons') is to be contrasted with Guild DAOs which can be defined as 'Made Associational Commons'''' because they act as associations bound by mutual affinity to a craft which the group has created or made. The poles are polemical. Virtually no entity is not already a blend, rather the dynamism occurs in their interplay. The diagonal axis which forms between Bioregional DAOs and Guild DAOs is one of mutua...")
• 09:16, 28 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bioregional DAOs (Created page with "=Contextual Quote= "In order to undual we must dismantle terra nullius (land of nothing) as a moral and economic ideology, and nurture terra ominus, (land of all things). To do so is to unlearn an immanent trope that there is a living world beyond us, and a dead one which we have created. The latter feeding off the former through various systems of enclosure and capture. In outlining the potential for regenerative DAOs to proliferate commons of forests, signals, aquifer...")
• 04:06, 27 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Systasis (Created page with " =Definition= “systasis,” = “the conjoining or fitting together of parts into integrality” (The Ever-Present Origin, p. 310). David MacLeod, citing Jean Gebser (https://daviddmacleod.substack.com/p/drifting-toward-a-new-form-of-self) Category:Integral Theory ")
• 03:36, 27 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page DAOs as Commons (Created page with " =Discussion= Austin Wade Smith: " the social sphere has always been web-based, and thus not exclusively a human affair. In what follows, I’d like to explore how DAOs, a very recent form of web-based community, can be understood as a continuation of the legacy of the commons, and how the hybrid commons of ecological and information systems they support, may be an essential substrate through which informed climate policy, law, economy, and information technology might...")
• 03:35, 27 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Making the Non-Human World Legible Through Technology (Created page with "'''* Article: Austin Wade Smith. Commons Sense - An Introduction to DAOs as Ecological ↔ Digital Linkages.''' URL = https://mirror.xyz/austinwadesmith.eth/J2Ac0fFG1XbEHLch5c_TQy2OxfFjebK6BnJpHJKbgFg ''(the human, the natural, the technological, three in one coordination mechanisms)'' =Description= "We live in an era of a great extinction of certain kinds of webs, and a vast proliferation of other kinds. Despite their apparent divergence, I think understanding the...")
• 15:30, 26 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Regen Foundation (Created page with " =Status= Regen Network: "As the largest token holder in the Regen Network ecosystem, the Regen Foundation has established various projects. One of the first initiatives was the delegation program, which involves staking tens of millions of $REGEN across a validator set consisting of 75 members. Delegations are recalculated on a monthly basis, taking into account factors such as validator-set prominence, governance participation, community participation, uptime, a...")
• 15:29, 26 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Regen Registry (Created page with " =Status= Regen Network: "Regen Network also ventured into the realms of emerging standards in the voluntary carbon and ecosystem service market through the creation of Regen Registry, a community-driven ecosystem service registry that is pioneering standards to promote ecological regeneration. The Registry’s guidelines are governed and owned by the community of issuers, who are stakeholders responsible for producing public goods related to ecological health outc...")
• 12:56, 26 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Institute of Relational Being (Created page with " '''= IRB''' URL = https://instituteofrelationalbeing.org =Description= "Grounded in relationships, our mission is to embark on a collaborative vulnerable exploratory process of reorientation and remembrance. You could think of it as '''an ongoing human~nature~culture restoration project'''. This involves practices rooted in a devotion to being present. Through this process, you, as a human being, can gain a clearer understanding of your place as part of this shared...")
• 09:58, 26 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page War in Human Civilization (Created page with " '''* Book: War in Human Civilization. Azar Gat.''' URL = =Review= Michael S. Neiberg: "Azar Gat's newest book joins the recent scholarship attempting to explain the "riddle" of war. After writing books on military thought and the development of military strategy, Gat turns his eye toward the origins and fundamental nature of war itself. At the risk of boiling down a sophisticated argument too much, he agrees with Lawrence Keeley and others that war has been a funda...")
• 09:31, 26 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stuart Kauffman on Beyond Reductionism (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I5mYDUARY4 "Stuart Kauffman discusses his book Beyond Reductionism" Category:Complexity Category:Webcasts ")
• 12:02, 25 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jordan Greenhall on Why Controlling the Masses Through Media No Longer Works (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7MHHklZI0Q =Description= "When television took over from print and radio as the dominant media in the second half of the 20th century, a hierarchy evolved in which the privileged few with TV camera access spoke to the masses. This top-down dissemination of news and opinion not only shaped information, but it also shaped the psychology of those people, and of anyone who has lived with one foot in the TV broadcast era, and the...")
• 10:33, 24 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Oswald Spengler Society (Created page with " '''= The Oswald Spengler Society for the Study of Humanity and World History''' URL = https://www.oswaldspenglersociety.com/the-society =Description= ​"The "Oswald Spengler Society for the Study of Humanity and World History" (ASBL BE0688.598.446) engages in the understanding of the principles underlying Human Evolution and World History and its perspectives. It is dedicated to the comparative study of cultures and civilizations, including pre-history, the evoluti...")
• 06:40, 24 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Brian Massumi on Relational Fields (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb8WjSEAgSc =Description= Massumi "is particularly celebrated for his insights into the dynamics of the unconscious and the complexities of social and psychological fields. ... EP6 Highlights: 1) Translating "Capitalism and Schizophrenia": Brian Massumi guides listeners through the intricate process of translating the seminal work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, shedding light on the challenges encountered in making s...")
• 09:22, 23 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Omni-Consideration (Created page with " =Description= Emil Ejner Friis: "Omni-consideration derives directly from this axiom of emotional valence: We should attempt to maximise pleasure and minimise suffering (over the long run). The concept of Human Rights is a subset of this way of thinking, but Omni-consideration goes much further: it implies care not only for all humans but all conscious beings (and the environment as a result). '''Omni-consideration implies the practice of considering the impacts of...")
• 08:52, 23 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralism (Created page with " =Description= The E.F. Schumacher Institute: "Transcending traditional categories of “right” and “left,” decentralism has been the logical meeting place for those who believe that preserving human scale and encouraging a spirit of community are essential for the human spirit to thrive. In a world afflicted with giantism in its social, economic, and political institutions, decentralism is often mistakenly identified as radical, but it is in fact based on many t...")
• 08:31, 23 May 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page John Vervaeke on the Philosophical Silk Road Project (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp4LtTUcSZ8 =Description= "Nobody lives on the Silk Road; people move along it." - John Vervaeke [00:03:37] "The idea of the Silk Road, to me, is that the wandering, and the traveling, and the encountering different influences, and the metabolizing of a lingua philosophica helps to create a space within oneself into which that inward process can pour itself, discover itself, and metabolize itself." - Christopher Mastropietro...")