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• 06:24, 26 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Polarpunk (Created page with " '''= an attempt to integrate the best of Solarpunk, Lunarpunk, and Cypherpunk''' =Discussion= Paul J. Dylan-Ennis: "The solarpunk vision should not be seen in terms of repression. It is a desirable thing to aim for, and shows us in the here and now how much this society lacks. It should be propagandized in increasingly beautiful images, texts, discussions, videos and movies. O’Leary finishes her piece by saying solarpunk should integrate the lunarpunk...")
• 05:59, 26 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Solarpunk vs Lunarpunk vs Polarpunk (Created page with " =Contextual Quote= "Solarpunk ideals and Regen worldviews, exemplified by the sun, offer a compelling antidote to crypto’s tendency toward fleeting experimentation. These frameworks envision systems grounded in long-term sustainability, where the value created not only persists but actively regenerates, nourishing the ecosystems it touches. They urge us to move beyond breaking things for the sake of innovation and imagine a future where experimentation is purpos...")
• 05:51, 26 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Glitter Nihilism (Created page with " =Discussion= Ann Brody: "Eleftherios Diakomichal talk at DevCon, “Financial Nihilism vs FOSS Culture: The Battle for Ethereum’s Soul,” delved deep into this tension, exploring the struggle between crypto’s financial exploitation and its foundational ideals of decentralization and open-source culture. Diakomichal highlighted the complexities and contradictions within the crypto space - on one hand, the excitement and rebellion of financial freedom, and on the o...")
• 04:46, 26 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Charter Cities (Created page with "=Example= ==Prospera== Rachel Corbet "There are about three dozen charter cities currently operating in the world, according to an estimate from the Adrianople Group, an advisory firm that concentrates on special economic zones. Several others are under development, including the East Solano Plan, run by a real estate corporation that has spent the last seven years buying up $900 million of ranch land in the Bay Area to build a privatized alternative to San Franc...")
• 14:32, 25 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Monetary Diversity Initiative (Created page with " = MoDi URL = https://www.monetarydiversity.org/about-modi =Description= "MoDi is an initiative aimed at promoting complementary and alternative monetary systems and experimentations for social, environmental and economic purposes to better fulfil monetary functions for society. We advocate a more comprehensive and open legal framework for the democratization and the open development of complementary payment media towards policymakers and the general public." Cat...")
• 05:39, 25 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page States and State Systems After Globalism (Created page with " '''* Book: Taking Back Control?: States and State Systems After Globalism. Wolfgang Streeck.''' URL = =Review= Justin H. Vassallo: Streeck’s latest book, is ... invested in imagining a path out of the policy straitjacket jointly imposed by the Washington Consensus and Brussels. He outlines a renewal of social citizenship through reclaimed sovereignty, buttressed by cooperative multipolarity. In other words, a world system that safeguards democratically determined...")
• 01:42, 25 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Molly White (Created page with " =Bio= "From November 2022 to October 2023, I was a Fellow at Harvard's Library Innovation Lab, which supported me in my work for a year. This fellowship was enabled by the Democratizing Open Knowledge program, which is funded by the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, a "nonprofit organization committed to preserving humanity's most important information by fostering the development of open-source software and open protocols". As the name suggests, they are...")
• 10:41, 24 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cooperative Breeding Hypothesis (Created page with " =Discussion= Cathryn Townsend : "Turning to the question of how gender egalitarianism may have evolved, evolutionary anthropologist Kristen Hawkes and colleagues have suggested that the reason postmenopausal women survive long past their reproductive years is that their role in helping to care and provide for the offspring of closely related kin was adaptive. This is known as “the grandmother hypothesis.” Anthropologist and primatologist Sarah Blafer Hrdy (20...")
• 05:27, 23 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Source Legal Systems (Created page with " For an example, see: Ulex Category:P2P Law ")
• 08:40, 22 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Inequity Aversion (Created page with " =Description= Cathryn Townsend: "Psychological and game-theory experiments demonstrate the existence of “inequity aversion” among both human and nonhuman primates and the specifically human tendency to punish those who behave inequitably even if administering the punishment incurs a cost to the punisher. For example, Sergey Gavrilets (2012) has used agent-based modeling to show that each individual benefits if within-group competition is reduced and that stron...")
• 04:26, 21 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Publications (Created page with " thumb|center|600px|P2P Foundation Publications =Directory= Access to our publications: Category:P2P Foundation Category:Michel Bauwens ")
• 04:10, 21 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Kautilya’s Vedic and Ethics-based Economics (Created page with "'''* Chapter: Sihag, B.S. (2024). Kautilya’s Ethics-based Economics vs Modern Economics. In: Chakravarti, S.S., Chatterjee, A., Chakravarti, A., Widdison, L. (eds) Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today. Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.''' [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47972-4_10 doi] URL = https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47972-4_10 =Description= "Vedas were composed more than five thousand...")
• 03:46, 21 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Case Study of MakerDAO (Created page with "'''* Article / Conference Lecture: The De-Central Bank in Decentralized Finance: A Case Study of MakerDAO. Martin Brenneke et al.. Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2022.''' URL = https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/072d58d7-dbdb-421e-ae06-f7174c5e9f44 =Abstract= "Countless decentralized finance (DeFi) applications of the past years have suffered from the high volatility and speculative behavior surrounding their unde...")
• 03:35, 21 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Horological Politics (Created page with " '''= how keeping and enforcing time is linked to political power''' =Discussion= Saffron Huang: "The visible imposition of time has very often been a deliberate means of exerting control over lives. Sometimes, this display of control is meant to achieve a sense of security through projecting order in chaotic times. The world’s oldest known surviving mechanical clock was installed in medieval Chioggia, soon after a war between Genoa and Venice that left the main pi...")
• 02:51, 21 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page New Polity on the Gender Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5zSD_yPUX0 =Description= "Modern economics takes the wage for granted, but during the feudal era, working for a wage was considered a sign of poverty. What changed? And how did this shift in economics shift gender roles? Join Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell as they discuss how capitalism rewrote our modern conception of gender." Category:Gender Category:P2P Class Theory Category:Transition Category:Webcasts ")
• 02:20, 21 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ray Dalio on the Five Forces Determining Societal Cycles (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O14xSX9bqwE A good summary of Dalio's cyclic insights. Category:P2P Cycles Category:Webcasts ")
• 06:23, 20 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Social Media Content Moderation (Created page with " =Discussion= Henry Farrell: "This is an inherently horrible cybernetic task in ways that Mike Masnick’s “Impossibility Theorem” captures nicely. - ''"any moderation is likely to end up pissing off those who are moderated. … Despite some people’s desire to have content moderation be more scientific and objective, that’s impossible. By definition, content moderation is always going to rely on judgment calls, and many of the judgment calls will end up in gra...")
• 03:36, 20 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Dictatorship of the Proletariat (Created page with " '''= Marxist (Leninist) concept about the transitional modality between capitalism and socialism''' =More information= ==Books== Hal Draper's Dictatorship of the Proletariat From Marx to Lenin Étienne Balibar'a On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ==Video== * Discussion between C. Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqz8VK1lIgA Category:P2P Class Theory ")
• 05:33, 19 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stake Market (Created page with " =Discussion= ==A market for stake: The key to distributed value==\ Dick Bryan: "The stake market ... must encode more than ‘price’ if it is to deliver critical signalling to the network. Stake offered to the market must encode information about the social priorities which will be expressed in the performances and outputs it funds. Stake must carry a value proposition (a verifiable claim that performance outputs create social benefits), not presume a profit propos...")
• 05:05, 19 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page ECSA (Created page with " * For more, see our entry on '''the Economic Space Agency.''' =Description= Dicky Bryan: "The Economic Space Agency (ECSA) formed around deconstructing the power of capital, especially finance and its innately centralised form, and reconstructing an alternative of distributed power, creating new economic space and giving people agency to operate and navigate it. It is a call to rethink how we can build the conditions for a postcapitalist economy." (https://www.c...")
• 03:57, 19 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evolutionary History (Created page with " =More information= '''* Article: Hamblin, Jacob D., ed., Roundtable Review of Evolutionary History: Uniting History and Biology to Understand Life on Earth by Edmund Russell. H-Environment Roundtable Reviews 2, no. 3 (May 2012),''' URL = https://www.h‐net.org/~environ/roundtables/env‐roundtable‐2‐3.pdf =Description= "Edmund Russell adopts a view of history that draws unflinchingly upon the lessons of evolutionary biology and employs the notion of the coevo...")
• 03:25, 19 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Time as a Social Protocol (Created page with " =History= Saffron Huang: "Timekeeping is a device-mediated social protocol—various forms of timekeeping, supported by different tools, dictate how one may mark or tell time. In ancient times, shadows commonly denoted temporality: Aristophanes’ play Assembly of Women features a woman who asks her husband to return when his shadow reaches ten feet. Today, our timekeeping is based mostly on constructed standards of seconds, minutes, and hours, not accessible natural...")
• 03:10, 18 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Holochain Foundation (Created page with " =Status= ==2024== Eric Harris-Braun: "(Whither) the Holochain Foundation? Foremost, the Foundation will move from being a passive holder of the Holochain intellectual property, on behalf of the community, into being the active operational entity supporting and managing the Holochain development team. Part of our “coming of age” is realizing that we can’t do everything we might like. Focus matters. Our strategic plan for delivering on our mission of “fosteri...")
• 11:27, 17 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Fascism (Created page with " =Characteristics= Branco Milanovic: "Fascism as an ideology implies (i) exclusivist nationalism, (ii) glorification of the leader, (iii) emphasis on the power of the state as opposed to private individuals and the private sector, (iv) rejection of the multi-party system, (v) corporatist rule, (vi) replacement of the class structure of society with unitary nationalism, and (vii) quasi religious adulation of the Party, the state and the leader." (https:/...")
• 05:57, 17 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Theoros (Created page with " =Description= The Theoros Project: "In seeking a model for this new type of scholar, we find inspiration in an ancient Greek figure: the theōros — a contemplative, a representative, and a traveler. The word means “seer,” “observer,” or “spectator.” '''As a group, the theōroi were practitioners in the art of theōria (contemplation), from which our word “theory” also derives.''' A theōros could be a figure of civic, philosophical, or religious impo...")
• 03:43, 17 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Will Ruddick (Created page with "Will Ruddick is the founder of the Sarafu Network, a credit commons in Kenya and other African countries =Directory= Will Ruddick's (Sarafu Network) , a selected ABC of the contemporary (credit) commons: (we have more than 40 references on his work in this wiki) * Characteristics of a Fair and Decentralized Currency System , https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Will_Ruddick_of_Grassroots_Economics_on_the_Characteristics_of_a_Fair_and_Decentralized_Currency_System...")
• 05:01, 15 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Role of the Advent of Agriculture in Creating Class Society (Created page with " =Discussion= Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale: "The transformation from equality to hierarchy, and from gender equality to marked gender inequality, is generally associated with farming, and this presents Graeber and Wengrow with considerable problems. Because of their interest in choice, they seem determined to avoid materialist arguments or consider the ways the environment conditions and limits the choices people have. Agriculture was invented independently in...")
• 03:31, 15 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page We Have Never Been Woke (Created page with " '''* Book: We Have Never Been Woke. By Musa al-Gharbi. Princeton University Press, 2024.''' URL = https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691232607/we-have-never-been-woke? =Contextual Quote= "The key to understanding Wokeness, Al-Gharbi insists, is the struggles of “Symbolic Capitalists<ref></ref>” – “professionals who traffic in symbols and rhetoric, images and narratives, data and analysis, ideas and abstraction”. In other words, writers...")
• 03:25, 15 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Symbolic Capitalists (Created page with " =Description= Kenan Malik explains: "The key to understanding Wokeness, Al-Gharbi insists, is the struggles of “symbolic capitalists” – “professionals who traffic in symbols and rhetoric, images and narratives, data and analysis, ideas and abstraction”. In other words, writers and academics, artists and lawyers, museum curators and tech professionals. It is a social stratum that attempts to entrench itself within the elite, elbowing out others already t...")
• 03:14, 15 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Rebekah Barnett and Andrew Lowenthal of Liber-Net on Resisting Censorship (Created page with " Video via https://rumble.com/v5nbe25-public-culture-and-censorship-rebekah-barnett-andrew-lowenthal-tom-harringt.html "Jeffrey A. Tucker, Rebekah Barnett, Andrew Lowenthal, and Tom Harrington discuss Public Culture and Censorship at The New Resistance: Brownstone Institute Conference and Gala in Pittsburgh, PA at the William Penn Omni, November 2nd, 2024." Category:Rights Category:Webcasts ")
• 16:02, 14 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Democratic Women’s Declaration on Protecting Sex-Based Rights (Created page with " =Context= Kara Dansky: "The Democratic Women’s Declaration was launched on November 6, 2024.1 It stands firm on protecting sex-based rights. Key areas include maternal services, single-sex spaces, and freedom of expression. ... No men are women, including men who claim to “identify as” women and men who take hormones and have cosmetic surgeries to make them more resemble women. An entire industry that denies the material reality of sex is hard at work to eras...")
• 13:26, 14 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Marshall McLuhan on Cold vs Hot Media (Created page with " =Characteristics= From the Wikipedia: "In the first part of Understanding Media, McLuhan also states that different media invite different degrees of participation on the part of a person who chooses to consume a medium. Some media, such as film, were "hot" - that is, they enhance one single sense, in this case vision, in such a manner that a person does not need to exert much effort in filling in the details of a movie image. McLuhan contrasted this with "cool" TV,...")
• 02:37, 14 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Wellbeing Protocol (Created page with " '''= "a participatory grantmaking tool that allows community groups to democratically allocate grant funding towards their self determined goals."''' [https://www.thewellbeingprotocol.org/] URL = https://www.thewellbeingprotocol.org/ Category:Crypto Governance Category:New Zealand ")
• 13:42, 13 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Kshama Sawant on Class Politics vs Identity Politics (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKGDqffVj-M A 'Due Dissidence' video conversation Category:Identity Politics Category:P2P Class Theory Category:Webcasts ")
• 01:52, 12 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good (Created page with " '''* Article: Mazzucato, M., Okonjo-Iweala, N., Rockström, J., Shanmugaratnam, T. (2024): The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good, Paris : Global Commission on the Economics of Water, 219 p.''' URL = https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemFullPage.jsp?itemId=item_30472_1&view=ACTIONS =Description= "The Global Commission on the Economics of Water set out to recast the economics of water, mapping the systemic l...")
• 11:55, 9 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond (Created page with " '''* Book: From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond. Ed. by David Bollier and John Clippinger. 2014.''' URL = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274566666_Organic_Governance =Description= "This volume represents the contributions of eighteen different authors, many of whom have been involved with ID3 since its inception three years ago. The majority of the contributors attended a retreat last year in Jefferson, New Hampshire, where many of the topics discussed i...")
• 11:25, 9 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Asset Ecology (Created page with " =Discussion=: David Bollier and John H. Clippinger: "What is clear is that we are seeing a new kind of highly distributed, self-governing infrastructure that profoundly alters one of the most fundamental precepts of human social and economic organization – the formal recognition and management of identities, access rights to resources and the management of risk. In this new data ecology, virtually anything can become a “digital asset” – identities, currencies,...")
• 01:44, 9 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Peasant Organizations in a Chinese Movement for Alternative Development (Created page with " '''* Article: Reconstructing the Rural: Peasant Organizations in a Chinese Movement for Alternative Development. By Matthew A . Hale Matthew A . Hale. 2013''' URL = https://www.academia.edu/4951745/Reconstructing_the_Rural_Peasant_Organizations_in_a_Chinese_Movement_for_Alternative_Development =Description= "This ethnography examines four peasant organizations affiliated with New Rural Reconstruction (NRR), an ongoing alternative development movement in China. NRR c...")
• 10:56, 7 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Timocratic Governance (Created page with " =Discussion= Reilly Smethurst et al. : "We ... claim that DeFi’s governance is timocratic. This reflects the fact that DeFi’s elites are not simply wealthy; they are sometimes “shadowy” and unidentified as well. Timocracy is a type of stakeholder governance that dates back to the Solonian Constitution from the sixth century BC. It involves both producers (developers) and property owners (token-holders) that pursue a mixture of particular interests and common...")
• 10:56, 7 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tokenised Voting Rights (Created page with " =Discussion= Tom Barbereau et al. : "Unlike shares, voting rights tokens are not legal contracts, and they do not entitle holders to a share of a registered company’s profits . A community of voting rights token-holders – a DAO – is not typically positioned as a juridical person. The distinctions are clear. In the context of DeFi’s governance, decentralised specifically denotes independence from regulators, registered companies, and investor registration pr...")
• 15:12, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Conscious Circle of Humanity (Created page with " =Description= Jonathan Rowson: "In her extraordinary book, The Eye of the Heart, Cynthia Bourgealt dedicates a chapter to ‘The Conscious Circle of Humanity’ which she describes as follows (p139): - "''There’s an old piece of Hasidic Folklore that claims that our world at any point in time is held in its planetary orbit by thirty six conscious human beings. They don’t know each other, and they don’t even know if they’re among the thirty-six. But the qualit...")
• 13:51, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Seapunk (Created page with " '''= "SEA (South East Asia) punk is a quest for fresh ‘solarpunk for South East Asia’ futures inspired by the region’s historic open-sea world and culture, and imagined against the technologies, opportunities, and crises of our time."''' ​ URL = seapunk.asia Category:Movements Category:Asia ")
• 09:14, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Nantang Agriculture Cooperative - Anhui Province in China (Created page with " =Description= Notthere: "The Nantang Cooperative, located in the northern plains of Anhui Province, was born in the late 1990s when local peasants came together to address immediate needs and protect their shared interests. Over time, what began as a response to local injustice grew into something much more, and the members continues to thrive and serve the community to this day, remaining true to their grassroots origins. The early constitution of the cooperative in...")
• 06:56, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page E.O. Wilson on the Evolution of Eusociality (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgXYflLQjU =Description= "First the social insects ruled, from 60 million years ago. Then a species of social mammals took over, from 10 thousand years ago. Both sets of “eusocial” animals mastered the supremely delicate art of encouraging altruism, so that individuals in the groups would act as if they value the goal of the group over their own goals. They would specialize for the group and die for the group. In recent...")
• 06:46, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Dharmanomics (Created page with " '''* Book: Dharmanomics : An Indigenous and Sustainable Economic Model. Sriram Balasubramanian. Bloomsbury India''', URL = https://padhegaindia.in/product/dharmanomics-an-indigenious-and-sustainable-economic-model/ =Description= "Did Rajaraja Chola, who built the world-renowned Brihadisvara temple in Tanjore, and Suryavarman II of Kambuja Desa (Cambodia), who built the world’s largest temple complex, Angkor Wat, erect these enduring marvels with a magic wand? Sur...")
• 05:32, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Acephalous Societies (Created page with " '''= Acephalous Societies are NOT Non-Competitive Egalitarian Societies''' =Discussion= Cathryn Townsend: "Delayed-return hunter-gatherer societies (such as those of Okiek and Inuit peoples), big men societies (such as those of Papua New Guinean horticulturalists), and non-stratified lineage systems (such as those of the Tallensi horticulturalists of West Africa and the Yanomami horticulturalists of Brazil and Venezuela) are all Acephalous Societies that a...")
• 05:31, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Non-Competitive Egalitarian Societies (Created page with " =Description= Cathryn Townsend: "While the term (Egalitarianism) derives from the Enlightenment ideal of equality between people, in anthropology it refers to a tangible social practice rather than to a utopian ideal. Egalitarian social organization and cultural practices are present to a high degree in most mobile hunter-gatherer societies and a few shifting cultivator societies, although there may be elements of egalitarianism, or egalitarian subcultures,...")
• 05:09, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evolution of Egalitarianism and its Anthropological Understanding (Created page with " '''* Egalitarianism, the evolution of. By Cathryn Townsend. The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396doi]''' URL = https://www.academia.edu/29417676/Egalitarianism_the_evolution_of =Description= "Theory on the evolution of egalitarianism and its relevance to anthropology is described in three sections. The first section carefully defines and delimits usage of the term egalitarianism in anthropology, outlines the for...")
• 04:00, 6 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Endogenous Money Theory (Created page with " =Discussion= Yongseun Kim: "'''Endogenous money theory, rooted in Post-Keynesian economics, argues that the supply of money is determined by the demand for credit within the economy'''. In this framework, money is created endogenously as businesses and consumers demand loans, and commercial banks respond by issuing credit. This contrasts with the classical view that money supply is exogenously controlled by the central bank. In the context of the crypto ecosystem, th...")
• 11:59, 5 November 2024 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cosmobility (Created page with " '''= documentary in the making''' (circa Nov 2024) =Description= Mika Mattila: "What happens when Homo Sapiens once again turns into a mobile species? How will our lives, minds & societies look like after we’ve uncoupled our identities from places? Cosmobility is '''a refection of a timeless life in a placeless world.'''.. Cosmobility is a visual documentary essay refecting on the mobile, cosmopolitan experience of modern day nomads and the dawn of the Nomad Cen...")