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• 04:22, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilizational Complexity and Elite Decay (Created page with " '''* Article: Civilisational Complexity and Elite Decay. Paul O'Connor. International Political Anthropology, Vol. (14) 2, 157-173. December 2021.''' URL = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380561791_Civilisational_Complexity_and_Elite_Decay =Abstract= "Responding to Julien Freund’s piece in the previous issue of International Political Anthropology, this paper asks: Can decadence be a legitimate concept in the analysis of societies? If so, how do we concep...")
• 04:14, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Political Economy of Thermodynamics (Created page with " =Discussion= James Quilligan: "The laws of thermodynamics, introduced fairly recently in history, created new possibilities for the utilization of energy. During the past two centuries, applications of the first and second laws of thermodynamics have increased social complexity, improved living standards, and increased social and environmental control, creating extraordinary benefits for civilization. These advances include technological efficiency, agricultural produ...")
• 03:21, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Third Places and the Commons (Created page with " =Source= The article by Emmanuel Dupont is a reaction to: * '''B. Coriat et C. Vercher-Chaptal, "Défendre nos tiers-lieux" : entretien avec Antoine Burret et Yoann Duriaux. EnCommuns'''. Article mis en ligne le 22 mai 2024 sur https://www.encommuns.net/articles/2024-05-22-defendre-nos-tiers-lieux-entretien-avec-antoine-burret-et-yoann-duriaux/ Dupont's text was shared by email in September 2024. =Text= Emmanuel Dupont: (as translated by ChatGPT) "I read with...")
• 02:10, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Networked Power (Created page with " =Typology= By Andrej Zwitter and Jilles Hazenberg: '''1. Forms of networked power:''' "• Networking power: the power that actors and organizations have that constitutes the core of the network. This power pertains to the ability to include and exclude others, and thereby controls the makeup of the network. • Network power: the power that results from the standards required to coordinate interactions. This primarily concerns the imposition of rules within a netwo...")
• 02:05, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Relational Power (Created page with " =Definition= By Andrej Zwitter and Jilles Hazenberg: "Power is here conceived as relational (Dahl, 1957). Conceived as a relation, power exists in coordination and the ability of an actor to command that coordination. A single actor cannot be powerful in and of itself, it is in the ability to command others that she has power." (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/blockchain/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2020.00012/full) Category:P2P Hierarchy Theory Category:Rel...")
• 01:37, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized Network Governance (Created page with " '''* Article: Decentralized Network Governance: Blockchain Technology and the Future of Regulation. By Andrej Zwitter and Jilles Hazenberg. Blockchain for Good, 2022.''' URL = https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/blockchain/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2020.00012/full =Description- "This paper reviews the literature on governance theory in order to conceptualize governance as a mode of decentralized, networked regulation. We argue that the current dominant modes of govern...")
• 00:28, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Samo Burja, Rudyard Lynch and Erik Torenberg about the Inherent Differences between Civilizations (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW3hQ1xYPUc =Description= "a discussion between Samo Burja, Rudyard Lynch (‪@WhatifAltHist‬ ) and Erik Torenberg about the inherent differences between civilizations and their impact on history and politics. They explore the parallels and distinctions between ancient civilizations like Babylon and modern entities like Silicon Valley, the influence of Abrahamic religions, and how societal patterns challenge our current unde...")
• 00:01, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Space (Created page with " = facilitation method =History= Harrison Owen: "Open Space Technology, as a definable approach to organizing meetings has been in existence for somewhat more than a dozen years. Truthfully, I suspect it has been around as long as Homo sapiens has gathered for one purpose or another, from the days of the campfire circle onward. It is only that our modern wisdom has obfuscated what we already knew and have experienced from the beginning. But that is getting somewhat a...")
• 23:52, 22 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Woke Imperium (Created page with " '''* White Paper / Report: Woke Imperium: The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice and Neoconservatism. Christopher Mott. Peace & Diplomacy, 2022.''' URL = https://peacediplomacy.org/2022/06/27/woke-imperium-the-coming-confluence-between-social-justice-and-neoconservatism/ =Summary= Christopher Mott: ==Key Findings== *The advocates of American primacy within the United States foreign policy establishment historically rely on prevailing ideological trends of t...")
• 12:57, 22 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilisational Complexity and Elite Decay (Created page with " '''* Article: Paul O’Connor (2021) Civilisational Complexity and Elite Decay, International Political Anthropology journal, (2021) Vol. (14) 2, 157-173, [http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5721822 doi]''' URL = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380561791_Civilisational_Complexity_and_Elite_Decay "While Julien Freund talks of European civilisation as decadent, I will focus on the decay of elites, something which can occur repeatedly in the history of individua...")
• 10:25, 22 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Labor in Antiquity (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Suriano: "That labor came to be valorized as a perfective activity, however, stands in marked contrast with the sociopolitical world of antiquity and its classical philosophical expression. Within the ancient world, whether speaking of the Greek polis or the Roman Empire, sociopolitical reality was determined by those who owned land and expropriated slave labor through private land ownership worked by slave labor. The great masses constituting al...")
• 06:23, 21 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page ICP Blockchain (Created page with " '''= "ICP's vision is that most of the world's software will be replaced by smart contracts. To achieve this vision, ICP is designed to make smart contracts as powerful as traditional software".''' [https://internetcomputer.org/what-is-the-ic] URL = https://internetcomputer.org/ =Characteristics= "State-of-the-art User Experience: Users only need a browser to interact with ICP smart contracts. Users do not need wallets or tokens or any custom software, eliminating a...")
• 05:16, 20 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Review of Urban and Digital Commoning (Created page with " '''* Report: Reviving the commons? A scoping review of urban and digital commoning. By James Henderson and Oliver Escobar. Edingburgh Futures Institute. Data Civics Observatory, 2024''' URL = https://efi.ed.ac.uk/reviving-the-commons-a-scoping-review-of-urban-and-digital-commoning/ =Description= This report explores the contemporary revival of commoning practices in urban and digital contexts. The authors, James Henderson and Oliver Escobar, delve into the historica...")
• 14:33, 19 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Impact of the Center-Periphery Model for Net Energy in the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Created page with " =Discussion= James Quilligan: "Tainter (2004) and others emphasize the decisive impact of the center-periphery model for net energy in the rise and fall of civilizations.2 This pattern began twelve thousand years ago with the Holocene Age, when Earth’s glaciers receded and food, wood, and animals became the vital sources of energy and value. Throughout this long span to the present, as populations grew, they developed settlements, towns, city-states, and nations in...")
• 05:22, 19 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Category:Contributive Economy (Created page with " New section. September 2024. ")
• 05:13, 19 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Contributory Economy as Productive Economy (Created page with " '''* Book: Productive Economy, Contributory Economy: Governance Tools for the Third Millennium. Genevieve Bouche. 304 pages. 2022.''' URL = https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Productive+Economy%2C+Contributory+Economy%3A+Governance+Tools+for+the+Third+Millennium-p-9781119988373 =Description= "Presents an analysis of the factors affecting the evolution of our societal model, emerging from sedentarism, which culminated in the industrial age. To further this evolution, we mus...")
• 07:40, 18 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Category:Crypto Technology (Created page with "New section, part of a collection of related sections on * Crypto Governance * Crypto Economy * Crypto Technology * Crypto Politics * Crypto Ecology ")
• 06:14, 18 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Global Endosymbiosis (Created page with " =Description= Matthew McCarthy: "The concept raised here of ‘global endosymbiosis’ is quite straightforward; it is essentially the same as the idea of ‘embeddedness’, or ‘nestedness’, but aims to provide a slightly different connotation- namely, one which emphasizes the ‘living and dynamic relationship’ between different kinds of organizations. The motivation to develop such a concept is similar to, or even a direct reflection of, an earlier string o...")
• 04:59, 17 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Algorithmic Culture (Created page with " =Description= "Algorithmic Culture is a label for the entangled, sometimes disturbing, sometimes funny state of cultural formation that humans have entered by producing algorithms that operate online on such a massive scale and at such a fundamental level of societal organisation that they play a key role in producing culture. In this programme the term ‘bot’ is used in a broad sense to include all algorithmic agents that operate without direct supervision of h...")
• 11:00, 13 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons and the Republican Philosophy of Property (Created page with " * Book: Laín, B. (Ed.) (2023). Ni público ni privado, ¿sino común?. Usos, conceptos y comunidades en torno a los bienes comunes y la(s) propiedad(es). Bellaterra Edicions. ISBN: 978-84-19160-58-483. URL = =Review= (translated from the French by ChatGPT) Bruno Carballa: ""The book defends, on one hand, a vision of the commons rooted in the fiduciary conception of property as upheld by the republican tradition, and on the other hand, property understood as a bun...")
• 03:41, 13 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Common Trust Network (Created page with " =Description= The CommonTrust Network URL = https://www.commontrustnetwork.org/? "is a global registry of organizations that issue verifiable health credentials (such as SMART Health Cards). These organizations (called “Issuers” or “Health Data Sources”) are committed to empowering individuals with digital access to their health data using open, interoperable, and verifiable standards." Category:Data Commons Category:Health ")
• 03:37, 13 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tragedy of the Abolition of the Religious Commons in Reformation Europe (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Suriano: '''1.''' "The process of forcible expropriation of the people received a new and terrible impulse in the sixteenth century from the Reformation, and the consequent colossal spoliation of church property. The Catholic church was, at the time of the Reformation, the feudal proprietor of a great part of the soil of England. The dissolution of the monasteries, etc., hurled their inmates into the proletariat. The estates of the church were...")
• 03:17, 13 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Simon Michaux on the Purple Transition (Created page with " =Discussion= Marco Fioretti: "Michaux advocates a "purple transition" to a resource balanced economy that has reliable and consistently stable electricity generation with every weather, in all geographical locations, preferably in concentrated form, and low materials footprint. Concretely, at the heart of his proposal there is a reimagined commodity sector, and (besides geothermal, which if someone does get it to work will provide enormous amounts of energy) four tec...")
• 07:35, 12 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Sapience (Created page with " =Discussion= Antikythera: "As computation evolves into planetary infrastructure–scientific, cultural, geopolitical–perhaps its most decisive impact will be not in what it does as a tool, but as an epistemological technology: what it discloses to sapient intelligence about how the world works. This in turn alters how intelligence remakes its worlds, including the ongoing artificialization of intelligence, life, sensation, and ecosystems. What is the philosophica...")
• 04:45, 12 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Surveillance Watch (Created page with " ''"They know who you are. It's time to uncover who they are."'' Surveillance Watch URL = https://surveillancewatch.io "an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations." Category:Protocols and Algorithms Category:Maps ")
• 09:48, 11 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Towards a Sustainable Yield for Regional Ecosystems (Created page with " '''* Article: Who Will Pay Back the Earth? Revaluing Net Energy through the Sustainable Yield of Regional Ecosystems. By James Quilligan. Global Perspectives (2024) 5 (1): 122343. [https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2024.122343 doi]''' URL = https://online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/5/1/122343/203074/Who-Will-Pay-Back-the-Earth-Revaluing-Net-Energy =Abstract= "The West’s dominance of the world order is being tested by China, Russia, and other nations. This standoff over energ...")
• 09:17, 11 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Total State (Created page with " '''* Book:Auron MacIntyre. The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies.''' URL = =Review= N.S. Lyons: "MacIntyre provides a dispassionate dissection of how, without any cabal or specific conspiracy, an elite class captured all our major public and private institutions, hollowed them out, set them all marching in lockstep against the American middle-class, and made a mockery of the notion of constitutional “checks and balances.” The resulting “to...")
• 07:22, 11 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ritual (Created page with " =Video= * Introduction to the Study of Ritual URL = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVWyuBYnmRU "In this episode we introduce some of the key theorists and theories over the past century that have shaped our modern understanding of ritual and discuss the core questions, debates, issues and theories that have constituted the grand study of ritual. We begin with an overview of different types of ritual, followed by a brief discussion on the early challenges the stud...")
• 12:06, 10 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Michael Garfield on Finite vs Infinite Games (Created page with "Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNAx0jPqG7s =Description= "I'm reading James P. Carse's book Finite and Infinite Games, and one of the things that stuck with me that I just keep thinking about, talking about, is how he talks about: culture is an infinite game. There's no winner, you win by playing, the goal of the game is just to keep the game going. Society is a finite game where there are winners and losers. You get to a point and the goal of the game...")
• 07:07, 10 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Coproduction of Open Source Software by Volunteers and Big Tech Firms (Created page with " '''* Report: The coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms. By Matthew O’Neil, Cai, Muselli, Pailler, Zacchiroli. DPPC, JUN. 2021''' URL = https://dcpc.info/publications/the-coproduction-of-open-source-software-by-volunteers-and-big-tech-firms/ =Description= "This report maps how firms are collaborating with communities of unpaid volunteers to produce open source code, used in the ‘digital infrastructure’ which powers the contempor...")
• 12:21, 5 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Question Concerning Technology (Created page with " '''* Book: The Question Concerning Technology. Martin Heidegger.''' URL = =Description= FutureLearn: "Heidegger’s analysis of technology in The Question Concerning Technology consists of three main ‘claims’: (1) technology is “not an instrument”, it is a way of understanding the world; (2) technology is “not a human activity”, but develops beyond human control; and (3) technology is “the highest danger”, risking us to only see the world thro...")
• 12:18, 5 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Fettering Thesis (Created page with "= "For much of the twentieth century, the fettering thesis dominated Left thinking about technology." [https://cominsitu.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/belly-of-the-revolution-final.pdf] =Discussion= Jasper Bernes: "Many on the left still subscribe to a view of technology that G.A. Cohen, in his reconstruction of Marx’s thought, called “the fettering thesis.” From this perspective, the technological forces that capitalism employs in its quest for pro...")
• 11:37, 5 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page High-Rung vs Low-Rung Thinking (Created page with " =Characteristics= Tim Urban (paraphrased): "High-rung thinking (top of the ladder): * Sees truth-seeking as the highest value * Treats ideas as hypotheses to be tested and debated * Encourages viewpoint diversity and independent thought * Values humility, uncertainty, and changing one’s mind based on evidence * Applies principles and moral standards consistently regardless of tribe Low-rung thinking (bottom of the ladder): * Holds certain ideas as sacred and imm...")
• 07:07, 5 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Market as a Commons (Created page with " See Section 8.3 of the book: * '''Lukas Peter. Democracy, Markets and the Commons: Towards a Reconciliation of Freedom and Ecology. Transcript, 2021''' URL = https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839454244.pdf =Discussion= See: * Ecological Foundations of a Market Commons * Market Commons and Corporatist-Associative Democracy Category:P2P Market Approaches Category:Commons ")
• 07:02, 5 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecological Foundations of a Market Commons (Created page with " =Discussion= Lukas Peters: "By defining the market as a commons, we assume that economic activities are primarily to be understood within an ecological framework. The economy is thus not only understood as a subsystem of society, but also as a subsystem of an even larger and more encompassing ecosystem. This notion can best be understood by considering an idea put forward quite recently by Kate Raworth: “doughnut economics” (2017). In order to do justice to the fa...")
• 14:26, 3 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Trusted Seed (Created page with " '''= "Trusted Seed is a Value-Driven Community Advancing Regen Economies".''' URL = https://trustedseed.org/ =Description= "Trusted Seed is a Swiss Association that supports early-stage regenerative economies culturally and financially. Created in 2019, it has been a reputable network of trusted actors who apply wisdom, expertise, and capital to early-stage crypto communities committed to creating regenerative micro-economies for public goods through token engineeri...")
• 12:54, 3 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ashton Arnoldy and Daniel Garner on Owen Barfield (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE0WZT6-fII Conversations with Matt Segall. Category:Integral Theory Category:Webcasts Category:Intelligence ")
• 12:39, 3 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Biosociology of Solidarity (Created page with " '''* Article: The Biosociology of Solidarity. By Will Kalkhoff, Joseph Dippong and Stanford W. Gregory. Sociology Compass 5(10), September 2011''' URL = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264736764_The_Biosociology_of_Solidarity =Abstract= "For well over a century, sociologists have directed considerable attention to understanding and explaining the processes that produce social solidarity – the feeling of interpersonal connectedness that binds members of so...")
• 12:31, 3 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pre-Capitalist Markets (Created page with " =Discussion= Lukas Peters: "The creation of an abstract, competitive market was not only possible due to the enclosure of commons, but also through the opening up of highly regulated local markets. Karl Polanyi and Fernand Braudel are right to argue that, although most of human history has been based on subsistence and gift economies, exchange, trade and certain types of local markets are not necessarily a new phenomenon (Polanyi 2001: 66; Polanyi et al. 1957: 257-70;...")
• 06:28, 2 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Postformal Education (Created page with " * Book: Gidley, J. (2017). Postformal education: A philosophy for complex futures. Berlin: Springer. URL = =Review= Matthew Rich-Tolsma1 Reviewing Prof. Jennifer Gidley's new book – one which is in many ways a crowning achievement of her oeuvre to date, and has taken her many years (more than a decade beginning with her doctoral work) to complete – has not been an easy task. It is clear, even from a cursory skim of its contents page that Postformal Education is...")
• 06:12, 2 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Integrative Evolutionary Realism (Created page with " =Discussion= Zachary Stein: "Reality matters. Getting back to reality means embracing a new kind of metaphysics (an integrative evolutionary realism), a paradigm that is still being explicated at the leading edge of metatheory (Bhaskar, Esbjörn-Hargens, Hedlund, & Hartwig, 2015). Realism about the exterior and physical argues for the existence of laws of nature, facts, processes, and tendencies in the universe (Bhaskar, 1993). Realism about interiors argues these sa...")
• 06:07, 2 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Post-Truth (Created page with " =Characteristics= Zachary Stein: "The new post-truth culture is most obviously dangerous when it comes to orientating collective action towards the realities of the physical world. It is simply dangerous to not have a clear sense of the effects of common industrial toxins and food additives, the scope of climate change, or the amount of radiation leaking from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor. It is more comfortable to see post-truth culture as a problem contained...")
• 14:47, 1 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Adnan Husain on Ibn Khaldun's Theory of Civilization (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRYBx5SbdUw =Description= "Simultaneously a philosopher and a historian, and often considered to be "the first sociologist," Ibn Khaldun was among the first proper "social scientists" to develop a "science of society" - something quite close to what we today call "historical materialism." What insights can the work of a 14th century Mideval Arab thinker give us often today? Quite a lot, actually. Ibn Khaldun's insights on the...")
• 09:46, 1 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Encryption (Created page with " =Typology= Ken Macon: "The term “encryption” is often used broadly, but in the realm of private messaging services, it usually implies a specific standard: default end-to-end encryption. There are Two Main Types of Encryption: ==Non-End-to-End Encryption (Cloud Encryption)== "In non-end-to-end encryption, messages are encrypted by the sender, but the encryption keys needed to decrypt the messages are accessible to the service provider. This means that while th...")
• 08:52, 1 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Distributed Governance (Created page with " '''= DGov is here interpreted as 'governance by code, not by humans'.''' =Description= SecondRenaissance.net: "Distributed governance is a method of forming consensus and legitimating decisions without the need for a central actor or hierarchy. In traditional hierarchical organizations, there is always some level of human authority required to manage and protect organizational processes. For example, democratic groups need to trust that their secretaries will count...")
• 08:12, 1 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Complicated Open-Loop Systems vs. Complex Closed-Loop Systems (Created page with "=Typology= FT (paraphrasing Daniel Schmachtenberger): "The biosphere is a complex self-regulating system. It is also a closed-loop system, meaning that once a component stops serving its function, it gets recycled and reincorporated back into the system. In contrast, the systems humans have created are complicated, open loop systems. They are neither self-organizing nor self-repairing. Complex systems, which come from evolution, are anti-fragile. Complicated systems, d...")
• 15:42, 31 August 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Holomovement (Created page with " '''= "awakens us to our interconnectedness, igniting a critical mass of collaborative action serving the good of the whole".''' [https://www.holomovement.net/] URL = https://www.holomovement.net/ =Description= SecondRenaissance.net: "The Holomovement is "a social movement that awakens us to our interconnectedness, igniting a critical mass of collaborative action serving the good of the whole." "Guided by science and spirituality, this unifying movement is catalyzi...")
• 15:36, 31 August 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Teal (Created page with " =Description= From SecondRenaissance.net: "Teal is a term that derives from Spiral Dynamics, a model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organisations, and societies developed in the 1960s and 70s by Clare Graves, Don Beck and Chris Cowan.1 Stages of development, or 'value systems' in the Spiral Dynamics framework are coded with colours, with 'teal' or 'turquoise' being the final of the currently known stages. Several variations of Spiral Dynamics exist th...")
• 15:29, 31 August 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Government Effectiveness Index (Created page with " =Description= From the Wikipedia: "The government effectiveness index is a ranking of state capacity developed by the World Bank Group. It measures the quality of public services, civil service, policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of a government's commitment to improving or maintaining these aspects. The index includes 193 countries, each scored from -2.5 (less effective) to 2.5 (more effective).[1] It is part of a broader set of government qua...")
• 11:37, 31 August 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons and the Market (Created page with " =Discussion= Lukas Peters: "Having discussed the relationship between commons and the state, let us now turn to a central question that has been touched upon repeatedly yet incompletely so far: '''the relationship between commons and the market'''. Since I have already discussed both justifications of the open and competitive market and some of the problems it engenders, let me be brief in recapitulating the arguments. Most importantly, the open and competitive mark...")