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• 07:41, 8 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Neguentropic Money International Monetary System - NEMO IMS (Created page with "'''= NEMO IMS (For NEguentropic MONey International Monetary System). By Jean-Christophe Duval.''' URL = https://www.academia.edu/118271362/NEMO_IMS =Description= "NEMO IMS in brief NEMO IMS (For NEguentropic MONey International Monetary System) proposes a transformation of our monetary, banking, financial, accounting and tax institutions, with the aim of accelerating the processes of regeneration and preservation of ecosystems to guarantee a balance between the capa...")
• 13:10, 7 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page PostWestphalian Datafied Network States (Created page with " '''* Conference Paper: PostWestphalian Datafied Network States. By Igor Calzada. Proceedings: Digital Territories. RGS-IBS Annual Meeting, London (UK), 27-30 August, 2024.''' URL = https://ekoizpen-zientifikoa.ehu.eus/documentos/667a6b5bf4f0b94bb5602b5d =Abstract= "This paper introduces a lexicon tailored for the digital era, emphasizing the transformation and rescaling of nation-states in the context of digital citizenship and the burgeoning discussions around nove...")
• 13:01, 7 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Three Geopolitical and International Economic Orders After WWII (Created page with " =Discussion= Branco Milanovic: "The post World War II international economic organizations were conceived and founded at the Bretton Woods conference held in July 1944, almost exactly eighty years ago. They sought to avoid the disastrous economic effects of protectionism that deepened and lengthened the Great Depression and perhaps led to the War. The rules were based on the ideas of fixed exchange rates, moderate tariff protection, ability to borrow in order to solve...")
• 13:28, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Asian Moral Methaphysics vs Western Metaphysics of Morals (Created page with " =Discussion= Jeffrey Bishop: "By making the human the measure of all things and the master and possessor of nature, we can see the foundation of the various humanisms that have peppered the various European philosophical empires; at least, this is how I would extend the claims made by Iris Murdoch in her book, The Sovereignty of the Good. Murdoch points to the problems that arose in the mainstream moral theories of her day, problems that I don’t think we have overc...")
• 13:10, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ernst Cassirer on the Five Forms of Symbolization (Created page with " =Typology= Jeffrey Bishop: "Ernst Cassirer, the early twentieth century neo-Kantian philosopher, argued that, rather than the a priori forms of space and time, we should understand the conditions of possibility for human thought to be immanentized symbolic forms. According to Cassirer, there are five symbolic forms including #mythology/religion, #art, #language, #history, and #science. These symbolic forms are given by a culture, and each form mediates some...")
• 12:37, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Eric Weinstein on Type A vs Type B Democracy (Created page with " =Typology= As summarized by Micha Narberhaus: "But what is really so dangerous about our current situation, and what do our political leaders really mean when they say that democracy is in danger and we must save it? Subscribed Democracy is often said to mean 'rule by the people'. Our representative democracies are a form of government in which the people elect representatives to make decisions 'on behalf of the people'. This is what the physicist and cultural comm...")
• 12:32, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized Web3 Governance as New Form of Nation-Statehood (Created page with " '''* Article: Decentralized Web3 Reshaping Internet Governance: Towards the Emergence of New Forms of Nation-Statehood? By Igor Calzada. Future Internet Volume 16 Issue 10. [https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16100361 doi]''' URL = https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/16/10/361 =Abstract= "This article explores how decentralized Web3 is reshaping Internet governance by enabling the emergence of new forms of nation-statehood and redefining traditional concepts of state sovereignt...")
• 09:53, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture (Created page with " '''* Book: The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture. Jacques Cauvin. Cambridge University Press, 2000; ''' URL = [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231877808_The_Birth_of_the_Gods_and_the_Origins_of_Agriculture_by_Jacques_Cauvin_translated_by_Trevor_Watkins_New_Studies_in_Archaeology] ''Book: Naissance des divinités, naissance de l'agriculture. Jacques Gauvin. 1994'' =Description= "French archaeologist Jacques Cauvin rejects this emphasis on...")
• 09:36, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Oasis Theory on the Origins of Farming (Created page with " =Description= Trevor Watkins (?): "When, almost a century ago, Raphael Pumpelly put forward the ‘oasis theory’ for the origins of farming in the Near East, his was one of the first in a long series of explanations which looked to environment and ecology as the cause of the shift from hunting and gathering to cultivation and animal husbandry. Pumpelly envisaged climatic desiccation at the end of the last Ice Age as the primary factor, forcing humans, plants and ani...")
• 03:17, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Modernity (Created page with " =Characteristics= Tom Murphy: "What do I think we can say about modernity with a reasonable degree of confidence? Modernity is a very new phenomenon on this planet: nothing of its kind has happened before. Even extending the boundary of modernity to a 10,000 year run since agriculture began, its duration is exceedingly short on evolutionary timescales—even compared to our species’ existence of 250–300 kyr, which itself is short compared to many species’ lif...")
• 02:47, 6 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Macrohistory of Lawrence Taub (Created page with " '''* Book: A Futurist for the 21st Century: The Macrohistory of Lawrence Taub (1936-2018). By Jan Krikke. DCO Books (Proglen Trading), 2024''' URL = =Description= =Contents= * Part 1: The Macrohistory of Lawrence Taub 7 * Part 2: P.R. Sarkar and Lawrence Taub 38 **Sarkar’s Contribution to Macrohistory… 44 * Part 3L The P2P Foundation Interview 55 * Part 4: Lawrence Taub: Life and Work 68 * Part 5: The Spiritual Imperative Review 97 * Part 6: Foreword to...")
• 08:46, 5 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Phase Shift Framework (Created page with "=Description= Nafeez Ahmed: "Civilisations, like all major natural systems, move through a life-cycle of four stages - growth, stabilisation, release and reorganisation. The final stage either precipitates a new life-cycle, or the death of the system. The planetary phase shift framework indicates that human civilisation, as the largest socio-ecological system on the planet, is moving between the third (release) and fourth/final (reorganisation) stages of its life-cycl...")
• 00:59, 5 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page European Crypto Initiative (Created page with " '''= "aims to shape EU regulation to favour open, permissionless, decentralised applications leveraging blockchain technology while advocating for an innovative EU environment, supporting technological development for SMEs and innovative Crypto Assets Service Providers."''' URL = https://eu.ci/ Category:Crypto Politics Category:Movements Category:Europe Category:Policy ")
• 07:50, 4 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pachomian Monasticism and the Communal Revivification of the Roman Agricultural Heartland (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Suriano: "Most of Western monasticism grew out of an urban asceticism whose movement found perfection not in the desert but rather in revivifying deserted villages.94 With the decline of the Roman Empire, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, the village life of communal production became increasingly pressed into, not only heavy taxation, but crushing debt bondage. This entailed a process that effectively hollowed out much of Rome’s rural agrarian ba...")
• 05:43, 4 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Sovereign Money (Created page with " =Discussion= A. Renner et al. : "In establishing a global economy where biophysical resources can hope to be distributed sustainably and equitably, there must, essentially, exist some form of democratic control over new money issuance methods. As discussed cogently by Huber (2017) and Huber and Robertson (2000), for example, ideas of “sovereign money” should be carefully considered as legitimizing alternatives to the modern money system. Sovereign money involves,...")
• 05:42, 4 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Dual Nature of Money (Created page with " =Discussion= Herman Daly et al. : "Money can be used to buy goods and services; hence, money is naturally regarded as a form of wealth from an individual perspective. On the other hand, the existence of money implies a community capable of providing goods and services in exchange for money and a corresponding process of economic production, consumption, and disposal running in biophysical deficit. That process is entropic, since useful energy and materials are consume...")
• 05:40, 4 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Monetary Systems for an Equitable Bioeconomy (Created page with " '''* Article: Renner, A., Daly, H. & Mayumi, K. The dual nature of money: why monetary systems matter for equitable bioeconomy. Environ Econ Policy Stud 23, 749–760 (2021). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-021-00309-7 doi]''' URL = https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10018-021-00309-7 =Abstract= "Money can be understood from an individual perspective as an abstract form of wealth. From a communal perspective, however, money is better regarded as a debt, a bi...")
• 03:39, 4 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evolution of Meaning (Created page with " '''* Book: The Evolution of Meaning. A Universal Learning Process. By Brendan Graham Dempsey. Sky Meadow Press, 2024''' URL = https://www.skymeadowinstitute.org/press =Description= "In this first volume of his book series The Evolution of Meaning, Dempsey introduces a theory of meaning based in thermodynamics and information processing. If the acquisition of meaningful information is what aids the viability of entities in context, we can appreciate evolution throug...")
• 03:19, 4 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Politically Motivated Reasoning (Created page with " = "If a subject engages in politically motivated reasoning when assessing some evidence or argument, their assessment of that evidence or argument is nontrivially influenced by their background political beliefs". =Discussion= Tim Hayward: "For reasons that evolutionary psychologists have expounded, human beings exhibit certain biases in their beliefs about the world. In the context of a developed society, biases in perceptions of social realities can potentially be...")
• 04:19, 3 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Marshall McLuhan on the Evolution of Media Epochs (Created page with " =Excerpt= From the Wikipedia: "The book, the Gutenberg Galaxy, may also be regarded as a way of describing four epochs of history: #Oral tribe culture #Manuscript culture #Gutenberg galaxy #Electronic age For the break between the time periods in each case the occurrence of a new medium is responsible, the hand-writing terminates the oral phase, the printing and the electricity revolutionizes afterwards culture and society.[10] Given the clue of "hand-writing"...")
• 02:37, 2 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Social Stink Debate Strategy (Created page with " =Description= Wokal Distance: "One sees again and again the following tactic in play: Rather than winning the debate through rationality, reason, arguments, logic, and so fourth, the Social Justice activists accuse their opponents of being racist, sexist, homophobic, bigots, as a way to cover their opponents with social stink. This is the weaponizing of social stigma and accusations of bigotry as a way to win a debate by destroying the reputation, social standing, an...")
• 02:19, 2 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Invisible Garden (Created page with " '''= The Invisible Garden is a 'pop up city located in Chiang Mai', taking place in the fall of 2024''' URL = https://invisible.garden/ =Description= "Invisible Garden is an Ethereum, ZKP and culture pop up city located in Chiang Mai, dedicated to fostering the synergy of technology, culture, and community. Inspired by the 17th-century Invisible College and the philosophical concept of the Infinite Garden, we embrace a culture of boundless growth, endless possibilit...")
• 01:48, 2 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Medium Is the Massage (Created page with " '''* Book: The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. Marshall McLuhan, 1967.''' URL = =Description= From the Wikipedia: "The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, published in 1967, was McLuhan's best seller, "eventually selling nearly a million copies worldwide." Initiated by Quentin Fiore, McLuhan adopted the term "massage" to denote the effect each medium has on the human sensorium, taking inventory of the "effects" of numerous media in terms...")
• 01:45, 2 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Marshall McLuhan (Created page with "=Bio= From the Wikipedia: "Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his teaching career as a professor of English at several universities in the United States and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto in 1946, where he remained for the rest of his life. He is kn...")
• 01:13, 2 October 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page How to DAO (Created page with " '''* Book: How to DAO. By Kevin Owocki and Puncar. H20, 2024''' URL = https://www.howtodao.xyz/ =Description= "What are they really? How do they operate, why do they matter, and how can we all thrive in this brave new world of work? In How to DAO, industry veterans Kevin Owocki and Puncar take you on an illuminating journey into the world of groundbreaking change, exploring the principles of decentralized finance, and teaching the brass tacks of setting up and mana...")
• 06:10, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tokens as Transactional Surveillance (Created page with " =Discussions= Rachel O'Dwyer: "Since the history of accounting there have been forms of transactional surveillance. Since the birth of money there have been forms of special tokens with strings attached – scrip for workers, alms for the poor, pin money for married women, grey market tokens for things like drugs and sex work, and special tokens for marginalized groups – for refugees, for slaves, for servants. The digitization of tokens has driven a large shift from...")
• 06:09, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tokens as the Future of Money in the Age of Platforms (Created page with " '''* Book: Rachel O’Dwyer. Tokens, the Future of Money in the Age of Platforms (Verso, 2023)''' URL = =Review= Geert Lovink: "She describes tokens as in-between artifacts that are simultaneously more and less than money. Tokens turn data into assets, are used to pay wages and track purchases. O’Dwyer asks what new forms of control and discrimination will come with this. “And how might online subcultures, activism, and internet art be spaces for reimagining...")
• 05:35, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Local Currencies with a Socioeconomic Goal (Created page with " * see: Local Currencies for Global Resilience Category:Localization Category:Money ")
• 05:34, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Community Currencies for Ecological Purposes (Created page with " = See: Community Currencies and Sustainability. Category:Money Category:Ecology ")
• 05:32, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Voucher-Based Systems (Created page with " '''= "These currencies are often issued by local governments or businesses and are used to promote local spending and support regional economic ecosystems".''' [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-024-01465-x#citeas] Category:Money Category:Localization ")
• 05:30, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Local Exchange Trading Systems (Created page with " See: LETS Category:Money Category:Encyclopedia Category:Localization ")
• 05:30, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Money and the Ecological Turn (Created page with "* '''Article: Blanc, J. Money and the ecological turn: lessons from alternative currencies. Sustain Sci (2024). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01465-x doi]''' URL = https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-024-01465-x =Abstract= "Our current monetary system displays major flaws as to whether it can support the ecological turn. This article stylises them as bank credit, a-territoriality and non-specialisation of money, and commensurability. Yet, the varie...")
• 04:25, 30 September 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilizations and Historical Patterns (Created page with " '''* Book: Civilizations and Historical Patterns. An Approach to the Comparative Study of History. Neagu Djuvara. Humanitas,''' URL = https://humanitas.ro/humanitas/ebook/civilizations-and-historical-patterns =Description= "In the shadow of the major civilization, before it disappeared in its turn, how many other cultures have perished without a trace? This immense tragedy is being lived now by many cultures, with great intensity. One has to belong to such a culture...")
• 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,...")