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• 02:35, 27 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Cooperation for Regional Self-Organization (Created page with " =Discussion= James Quilligan: "As the ecological limits of humanity’s demand for energy are crossed and ecosystem deficits expand across the planet, many people are questioning the capacity of state sovereignty to address the relentless disintegration of planetary habitability (Chakrabarty 2021, 196--204; Blake and Gilman 2024, 8--9). The main problem is that sovereign states cannot account empirically for the sources of natural energy that empower their economies b...")
• 22:02, 26 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Sensemaking Web (Created page with " =Description= Chris Leong: "In the sensemaking web, coherence is produced by a shared belief that each party possesses at least a partial truth and that the purpose of conversation is to create greater mutual understanding, rather than to fight each other like soldiers. Participants tend heavily towards the synthesis of various beliefs and even if people synthesise them in different ways, they still have something in common - namely that their beliefs are syntheses....")
• 21:14, 25 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Rudolf Steiner (Created page with " =Discussion= A note on Steiner and the potential relation with fascism, by Matt Segall: " I must mention here the polemical essays on Steiner published by historian Peter Staudenmaier. In numerous articles on the Institute for Social Ecology website and elsewhere (e.g., https://social-ecology.org/wp/2009/01/rudolf-steiner’s-threefold-commonwealth-and-alternative-economic-thought/), Staudenmaier has accused Steiner and ant...")
• 20:45, 25 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Calculation in Kind and Marketless Socialism (Created page with " '''* Article: Calculation in kind and marketless socialism: On Otto Neurath’s utopian economics. Thomas Uebel. Euro. J. History of Economic Thought 15:3 475–501, September 2008''' URL = =Description= From the introduction: "Otto Neurath was not shy to declare himself a utopian thinker. His standing as an economist depends on what one makes of this feature of his thought. Here I shall be attempting an immanent critique, on Neurath’s own terms. Without discus...")
• 20:31, 25 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Nomadism and the Visitor Economy in Chiang Mai, Thailand (Created page with "'''* Article: Digital nomadism as a new part of the visitor economy: The case of the “digital nomad capital” Chiang Mai, Thailand Angtyasti Jiwasiddi, Daniel Schlagwein, et al. Information Systems Journal, Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 1493-1535, September 2024''' URL = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/isj.12496?af=R =Abstract= "Digital nomadism allows individuals to travel worldwide while using various forms of information technology (IT) to work digitall...")
• 20:29, 25 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Nomadism (Created page with " =Case Study= See: Digital Nomadism and the Visitor Economy in Chiang Mai, Thailand '''* Article: Digital nomadism as a new part of the visitor economy: The case of the “digital nomad capital” Chiang Mai, Thailand Angtyasti Jiwasiddi, Daniel Schlagwein, et al. Information Systems Journal, Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 1493-1535, September 2024''' "Digital nomadism allows individuals to travel worldwide while using various forms of information technology (IT) to...")
• 20:20, 25 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Category:Crypto Culture (Created page with " New section, started September 26, 2024 ")
• 20:20, 25 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Edge City (Created page with " '''= "Edge City is an IRL experimentation lab for new ideas, tech, culture, and organizations, all dedicated to accelerating human flourishing."''' [https://www.edgecity.live/lanna] URL = https://www.edgecity.live/ =Examples= * Edge City Esmeralda * Edge City Lanna Category:Villages Category:Education Category:Crypto Culture Category:Network Nations ")
• 20:16, 25 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Edge City Lanna (Created page with " '''= Edge City Lanna, "a "popup village" for people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society", organized in Chiang Mai, during Oct-Nov 2024, along with at least 9 other confederated temporary villages (Chiang Mai Archipelago''' URL = https://www.edgecity.live/lanna ''Part of the Edge City initiative, https://www.edgecity.live/about'' =Description= "Edge City Lanna is a "popup village" for people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and s...")
• 09:39, 24 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Deference Politics (Created page with " =Discussion= Freddie deBoer: "What do I mean by “deference politics”? When I talk about deference politics, I’m referring to the tendency of left-leaning people to substitute interpersonal obsequiousness towards “marginalized groups” for the actual material change those groups demand. If you’ve lived in any left-aligned spaces in the past decade, you’ve encountered deference politics many times. A white person in a humanities seminar, an organizing mee...")
• 08:25, 24 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tools for the Commons (Created page with "'''= privately held company focusing on the tools for digital sovereignty''' URL = https://www.linkedin.com/company/tools-for-the-commons/ =Description= Hugo Matecowitsch: "At TftC we are building a governance protocol enabling sovereignties through digital-first institutions. We are enabling (i) institutions and States to become digital enablers for their populations, and beyond and (ii) citizens, e-residents, and intentional organizations of many kinds to fo...")
• 05:51, 24 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Metaphysics Behind Quantum Mechanics in German Thinking (Created page with " =Discussion= Neofeudal Review: "L.P. Koch [https://luctalks.substack.com/p/the-german-soul notes] that Germany’s development of Quantum Mechanics sprouted from it’s metaphysical understandings; it could not have and would not have existed without them: Some of the mystic reasoning so prevalent in the German tradition might actually have been fruitful even for the natural sciences: the development of Quantum Mechanics, in particular, can be seen in light of the re...")
• 05:46, 24 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Technological Limitations Based on a Society's Metaphysical Assumptions (Created page with "=Discussion= Neofeudal Review: "Limitations based on a society’s metaphysical presuppositions The ancient Greeks were the first to have a coherent scientific activity and to liberate scientific thought. They could have deduced the technical consequences of their scientific activity, but they did not do so. This was because their worldview refused to subsume all of society to treat technique as a God. According to '''Jacques Ellul in The Technological Society''':...")
• 12:17, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Created page with " '''* Gregory Bateson. Steps to an Ecology of Mind.''' URL = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind =Discussion= From the Wikipedia: "In his book Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Bateson applied cybernetics to the field of ecological anthropology and the concept of homeostasis. He saw the world as a series of systems containing those of individuals, societies and ecosystems. Within each system is found competition and dependency. Each of these systems...")
• 11:58, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Peter Turchin on the Overproduction of Elites (Created page with " Podcast via https://www.niskanencenter.org/are-we-overproducing-elites-and-instability/ =Description= "High levels of political violence and low levels of institutional support suggest we are in the midst of an age of discord. What can we learn from the cycles of history about political disintegration and recovery? Peter Turchin predicted the tumult. He points to our large class of aspiring elites competing for power without advancing the living standards of most Ame...")
• 11:23, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Medieval Christianity and Labor (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Suriano: "Early Christian culture vacillated between two conflicting images of labor, as portrayed by the ambivalent views within the scriptural tradition. In Genesis labor is depicted as both a primordial good, given to the joyful task of keeping and cultivating creation, and as a cursed affair, the toilsome consequence of the Fall. As Jacques Le Goff notes, within the early Middle Ages Christianity tended toward the latter interpretation as it...")
• 10:59, 23 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Fair Source Licenses (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Sawers: "For now, the main recommended fair source license is the Functional Source License (FSL), which Sentry itself launched last year as a simpler alternative to BUSL. However, BUSL itself has also now been designated fair source, as has another new Sentry-created license called the Fair Core License (FCL), both of which are included to support the needs of different projects. Companies are welcome to submit their own license for consideration,...")
• 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...")