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• 05:36, 10 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Michel Bauwens and Max Borders on the Evolution of Community Governance (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJzhhO_KYjs =Description= "Exploring the concept of "commons," its governance, and the role of technology, including blockchain and cryptocurrency." Category:Peergovernance Category:Webcasts ")
• 05:28, 10 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilization State (Created page with " * see our entry on: Civilizational States Category:P2P State Approaches Category:Governance Category:Civilizational Analysis Category:Encyclopedia ")
• 08:21, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Entangled Assets and Property (Created page with "=Discussion= Michel Bauwens: The concept refers to forms of asset ownership and property, in which individuals and communities can own 'each others' assets, at a micro-level, i.e. through tokens or similar forms of property denominators. It aims to: * enhance the possibility for bioregional and cosmo-local actors to invest in their commons 'trans-local' infrastructure * enhance the capacity to accept non-extractive invesment pools by non-local actors. I see fraction...")
• 07:27, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page History of the Intellectual Dark Web (Created page with " '''* Book: The Intellectual Dark Web: A History (and Possible Future). by Jamie Roberts. Pitchstone, 2025''' URL = =Description= "Outside of the progressive academics and activists whose ideology came to dominate the West in the second decade of the twenty-first century, arguably no group influenced public discourse as much as the Intellectual Dark Web. Challenging the restrictive and relativistic intellectual and cultural orthodoxies on the left that engulfed unive...")
• 06:51, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Economics of Unscale (Created page with " =Discussion= MIT Sloan Management Review: ""For more than a century, economies of scale made the corporation an ideal engine of business. However, the emergence of platforms and technologies that can be rented as needed have eroded the relationship between fixed costs and output that defined economies of scale. Together, these new factors have enabled small companies to pursue niche markets and successfully challenge large established companies that are weighed down b...")
• 06:48, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page End of Scale (Created page with " '''* Book: The End of Scale. by Kevin Maney, Hemant Taneja. MIT Sloan Management Review, 2018''' URL = https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-end-of/53863MIT59321/ =Description= "For more than a century, economies of scale made the corporation an ideal engine of business. However, the emergence of platforms and technologies that can be rented as needed have eroded the relationship between fixed costs and output that defined economies of scale. Together, these new...")
• 06:39, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Probabilistic Infrastructural Determinism (Created page with " =Discussion= Richard Heinberg: "Harris was an early adopter of the now-common view of the Agricultural Revolution as an adaptive response to environmental shifts at the end of the Pleistocene, a period of dramatic climate change. Glaciers were receding and species (especially big herbivorous prey animals such as mammoths and mastodons) faced extinction, with human predation hurrying that extinction process along. “In all centers of early agricultural activity,” w...")
• 06:37, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecological Explanation for the Origin of Civilization (Created page with " =Discussion= Richard Heinberg: Richard Feinberg: "Harris was an early adopter of the now-common view of the Agricultural Revolution as an adaptive response to environmental shifts at the end of the Pleistocene, a period of dramatic climate change. Glaciers were receding and species (especially big herbivorous prey animals such as mammoths and mastodons) faced extinction, with human predation hurrying that extinction process along. “In all centers of early agricultu...")
• 05:53, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Adoption of New Technologies Is Accompanied by an Increase in Energy Use which Trigger Social Transformations (Created page with " =Discussion= David J. LePoire: "Historical analyses suggest that the adoption of new technologies is accompanied by an increase in energy use and subsequent social transformations. These analyses include * the early identification of energy’s role in societies by White (1959), * the role of energy in the historical transformation and collapse of previous civilizations by Tainter (1988), * the recent contributions to this issue in the extended logistic complexit...")
• 05:39, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Fundamentals of Ecology (Created page with " '''* Book: The Fundamentals of Ecology. (Odum and Barrett 2005)''' URL = =Summary= James Quilligan: "In 1953 brothers Eugene Odum (1913–2002) and Howard Odum (1924–2002) examined these biophysical processes in The Fundamentals of Ecology (Odum and Barrett 2005). Elaborating on '''Latka’s maximum power principle''', Howard Odum developed an optimum power principle based on useful energy per unit of time. This focused on the calculation of transformity, the...")
• 05:35, 9 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Syntropians (Created page with " * see also: Syntropy =Description= Flavia Macedo: " '''Sintropians''' are people who agree to be forces of syntropy inside the humanity spectrum. '''Syntropy (Sintropia) is the coordination force of creation, it's life's energetic principle of order and internal organization that attracts together ever-increasing complex forms to create something new. While entropy breaks things down, syntropy guides them together. It could be translated as life force or the...")
• 07:57, 8 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Society (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Finding the Right Balance Between Open and Closed Values== Micha Narberhaus: "The open society was a project of maximum openness, liberation and diversity, of the removal of all boundaries and constraints posed by tradition. Those who lament the end of the open society and the return of the strong gods fear that in this new era we might move to the opposite extreme, with a return to ugly nationalism, where authoritarians ruthlessly impose their will on...")
• 07:55, 8 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Strong Gods (Created page with "'''= concept used by N.S. Lyons to explain the current political and cultural transformation favoring national-populist forces''' =Discussion= Micha Narberhaus: "As NS Lyons argues, Trump's election marks the return of the "strong gods", strong gods being “strong beliefs and strong truth claims, strong moral codes, strong relational bonds, strong communal identities and connections to place and past – ultimately, all those objects of men’s love and devotion, th...")
• 07:46, 8 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Polis Plan (Created page with "'''= PolisPlan: :"networks of circular economy villages; a blueprint for regenerative rural communities".''' URL = https://polisplan.com.au/ =Description= "Our mission is to facilitate the planning, design and construction of a network of tech-enabled, regenerative villages that strive towards self-sufficiency and zero waste within their bioregion. Each village will house a diverse but discrete community, integrating affordable living and work spaces with a renewable...")
• 07:27, 8 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Yanis Varoufakis on Trump's Tariff and Trade Policy (Created page with "=Discussion= A condensed version, provided by Mushin: Trump's Tariff Strategy: A Masterplan, Not a Mistake Varoufakis argues that *Trump’s tariffs are not random outbursts, as many of his centrist critics believe. Instead, they are part of a **deliberate and sophisticated economic strategy—a *risky but coherent plan to remake the global economic order. 🇺🇸 The Problem (as Trump sees it) Trump believes that: - The *dollar’s supremacy* has become a burden,...")
• 13:08, 7 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commoning as an Act of Design (Created page with "'''* Thesis: Commoning as an Act of Design: Rethinking Art and Design Higher Education Through the Lens of the Commons (A Western Perspective). Professional Thesis by Lucrezia Russo. Mastère Spécialisé Sustainable Innovation by Design, ENSCI-Les Ateliers, 2025.''' URL = http://lucreziarusso.com/documents/LucreziaRusso_CommoningAsActOfDesign_Thesis_2025.pdf =Description= "How can the economic and sociological theories of the commons serve as a lens for reconsiderin...")
• 12:33, 7 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Holonics (Created page with "=Description= Joel Dietz: "A philosophical approach that first rose to prominence through the writings of Arthur Koestler in the 1960s,' it offers a new model for interpreting organizations and social structures by conceptualizing them as self-regulating entities that are simultaneously inter-related 'parts' and self-contained 'wholes'? In this model, individuals and organizations are self-reliant, autonomous units that do not adhere to traditional hierarchical structu...")
• 11:47, 7 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jamie Roberts on the Intellectual Dark Web (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARu19oYqRa0 =Description= "Outside of the academics and activists whose ideology came to dominate the West in the second decade of the twenty-first century, arguably no group influenced public discourse as much as the Intellectual Dark Web. Challenging the intellectual and cultural orthodoxies that engulfed universities, the media, and big tech, this group—a loose collective of politically diverse intellectuals, commentato...")
• 15:04, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Swannanoa Watershed Action Network (Created page with " '''= "SWAN is a self-organizing network of individuals and local organizations committed to social justice and ecological regeneration, based on Doughnut Economics".''' [https://doughnuteconomics.org/stories/bringing-doughnut-economics-to-a-bioregion] URL = ''"The Swannanoa River watershed is in the beautiful mountains and valleys of western North Carolina, USA." (includes Asheville, NC)'' =Description= SWAN: "SWAN has hosted speakers of several local organiz...")
• 14:51, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Biocosmic Interindividualism (Created page with "'''= text and concept by Aleksandr Svyatogor, a polemic against the interindividualism of Abba Gordin, written in July 1922.''' URL = https://cosmos.art/cosmic-bulletin/2022/biocosmic-interindividualism =Context= Interindividualism: concept by Abba Gordin, a Russian universalist anarchist of the early 20th cy: "“self-organization minus society,” =Description= Aleksandr Svyatogor "Biocosmic interindividualism focuses not only on individuality (which is dynami...")
• 14:44, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Anarcho-Biocosmist Movement (Created page with "=Description= Eugene Kuchinov: "The anarcho-biocosmist movement first emerged in 1920, in the form of the Biocosmist Creatorium, a small club within the Moscow section of the anarcho-universalists. In 1922, it was reconfigured as the completely independent Creatorium of Russian and Moscow Anarchist Biocosmists. Aleksandr Svyatogor’s key texts of the anarcho-biocosmic period were published in the journal Biokosmist [The Biocosmist], four issues of which were published...")
• 14:28, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Recognition Alliance (Created page with "'''= "a not-for profit association dedicated to promoting the goals of the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration"''' URL = https://openrecognition.org/ =Description= "ORA’s mission is : * to contribute to the construction of an open and learning society based on the recognition of the talents, skills and aspirations of individuals, communities and territories; * to encourage, promote, support and federate open initiatives and innovations that contribute to this; *...")
• 08:29, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bologna Open Recognition Declaration (Created page with "'''= "The Bologna Open Recognition Declaration (BORD): call for a universal open architecture for the recognition of learning outcomes throughout life and in all fields."''' URL = https://openrecognition.org/bord/ =Description= "In 2016, during the 14th conference on Open Education, Open Recognition, its technologies and practices, a new coalition of learning stakeholders issued the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration: a call for a universal open architecture for t...")
• 08:18, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Learner Credential Wallet (Created page with "'''= "an open source mobile wallet developed by the Digital Credentials Consortium, a network of leading international universities designing an open infrastructure for academic credentials."''' URL = https://lcw.app/ Category:Standards Category:Education")
• 08:14, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Verifiable Credentials (Created page with " =Description= W3: "A verifiable credential is a specific way to express a set of claims made by an issuer, such as a driver's license or an education certificate. This specification describes the extensible data model for verifiable credentials, how they can be secured from tampering, and a three-party ecosystem for the exchange of these credentials that is composed of issuers, holders, and verifiers. This document also covers a variety of security, privacy, internati...")
• 07:44, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Badge Factory (Created page with "'''= "online platform ... to create, issue and manage their Open Badges"''' URL = https://openbadgefactory.com/en/ =Description= "Open Badge Factory is an innovative, user-friendly, and cost-efficient online platform that large and small organisations around the world use to create, issue and manage their Open Badges." (https://openbadgefactory.com/en/) Category:Education")
• 07:39, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized Credentialing (Created page with " =Status= ChatGPT'synthesis, based on the material available on our wiki in 2025 (but dated from a few years before): Open accreditation and peer-based credentialing have emerged as innovative approaches to recognizing and validating learning and skills outside traditional educational institutions. These concepts leverage community validation, digital platforms, and decentralized systems to offer more flexible and inclusive forms of accreditation.​ Open Accreditat...")
• 07:36, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Recognition Wallet (Created page with "=Description= Via ChatGPT: "In January 2025, discussions around developing an '''Open Recognition Wallet''' emerged, aiming to provide individuals with a decentralized platform to store and manage their credentials securely. This initiative seeks to enhance user control and privacy in the digital credentialing space." (https://blog.weareopen.coop/towards-an-open-recognition-wallet-327fff86b0d5) Category:Education")
• 07:34, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Recognition (Created page with "=Description= Via ChatGPT: "The concept of Open Recognition has gained traction, focusing on empowering individuals and communities to acknowledge and make visible their achievements and competencies. This approach extends beyond traditional institutional recognition, fostering a more inclusive and participatory acknowledgment of skills. " (https://www.t3networkhub.org/post/reinventing-open-badges-and-lers-with-open-recognition?utm_source=chatgpt.com) "In January 2...")
• 07:19, 6 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Peer-to-Peer Recognition of Learning (Created page with "=Description= Via Chat GPT: "Peer-to-peer (P2P) recognition involves learners assessing and acknowledging each other's competencies. This method fosters a collaborative learning environment where validation comes from community members rather than formal institutions. It challenges traditional hierarchies in education by valuing the insights and judgments of peers.​" =More information= * Open Accreditation Category:Education")
• 11:39, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Undivided Wholeness (Created page with "=Description= Michael Martin: "In their epochal publication The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory, David Bohm and Basil Hiley propose the idea that reality (and by this they mean all of reality, not just physical or quantifiable reality) is characterized by an “undivided wholeness,” and that imagination and intuition are important tools for disclosing what they call the holographic nature of being in which the part is implied in th...")
• 11:33, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Philip Pilkington on the Rise of a Postliberal World Order (Created page with "Podcast via https://www.postliberalorder.com/p/the-collapse-of-global-liberalism "Philip Pilkington hosts a special edition of The Postliberal Podcast to discuss his new book “The Collapse of Global Liberalism”. Category:Geopolitics Category:Global_Governance Category:Books Category:Politics Category:Podcasts")
• 11:23, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Did European Secularism Destroy Our Physical World (Created page with "'''* Book: Des empires sous la terre. Histoire écologique et raciale de la sécularisation. Mohamad Amer meziane. La Decouverte, 2021''' URL = https://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/des_empires_sous_la_terre-9782348046438 ''"It was the critique of Heaven that ultimately disrupted the Earth."'' =Description= "A key component of Western modernity is the separation between church and state, a process later called secularization and undergone by Europe over the last thre...")
• 09:19, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Zero Nominal Interest Rates (Created page with "=Description= Jordan MacLeod: "In his seminal 1969 work, "The Optimum Quantity of Money," Friedman proposed what would become known as the "Friedman rule" – a policy setting nominal interest rates to zero. This proposal stemmed from his recognition that positive interest rates create an opportunity cost for holding money, leading economic actors to economize on cash balances below the socially optimal level. Since producing money costs essentially nothing at the marg...")
• 09:08, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Anti-Entropic Function of Life (Created page with "=Discussion= On the context of other Russian discussions leading to Ilyenkov's text. Alexei Penzin: "Regarding the immediate circumstances surrounding the writing of “Cosmology,” intellectual historians and biographers emphasize the influence of one of Ilyenkov’s most important friends in the 1950s, the scientist and self-taught speculative thinker Pobisk Kuznetsov (1924–2000). Everything about Kuznetsov was peculiar, starting with his first name: “Pobisk”...")
• 08:27, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ideality (Created page with " =Discussion= Filosofia: "Like the concrete, the ideal does not exist in the head but outside the subject. The ideal is a stamp pressed on nature by human activity. Ilyenkov’s seminal “The Ideal” (“Ideal’noe”), published in 1962 in the five-volume Philosophical Encyclopedia (Filosofskaia Entsiklopediia), explored non-material entities in a material reality. The ideal resides at the threshold of mind and social activity. It “is not a thing, but part of a...")
• 08:25, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Thinking as a Process of Communion (Created page with " =Discussion= ==the vision of a collective thinking body== Filosofia: On the "The “Zagorsk Experiment”: "In the 1970s, Ilyenkov devoted much time to Alexander Meshcheriakov’s radical school in Zagorsk near Moscow, a laboratory for new methods in deaf-blind education [surdotiflopedagogika]. In the footsteps of Soviet psychologists, such as Lev Vygotsky, Meshcheriakov confronted in practice how Diamat excluded deaf-blind children from socialist society. Despite...")
• 07:06, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Evald Ilyenkov on the Cosmology of the Spirit (Created page with "=Discussion= Filosofia: "Ilyenkov’s most important early text is the phantasmagoric “Cosmology of the Spirit.” He read it to friends and visitors in his apartment over decades. Drawing on Friedrich Engels’ Dialectics of Nature, Ilyenkov’s text plays with ideas of intelligent materialism and humanity’s self-destruction. Through communism, thinking materially manifests itself as a cosmic event—a crucial stage in the circular evolution of the solar system. U...")
• 06:47, 5 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Theory and Practice of Commons - Japanese Introduction (Created page with "=Source= * Special Issue: Theory and Practice of 'Commons'. A Quarterly Report of MATERIALISM STUDIES (KIHO YUIKEN), No.170, February 2025 URL = https://kiho-yuiken.jimdofree.com/english-page/ =Contents= ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Preface Essay ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Toward a　Benefit　State:　Beyond the Illusion of a Modern Working Society /YASUI Yutaka ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Special Issue~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Theory and Practice of...")
• 08:03, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mark Whitaker on Various Civilizational Topics (Created page with "Some comments I wrote up this morning and shared with Michel privately, who gave me the go-ahead to archive them here. Thanks, Michel. As I said I "didn't want to steal your thunder" on your post with what becomes a longer post of mine in response, though you said you wanted it archived, so here it is the first part I already shared. I will finalize my other notes later. When I quote Michel it is in quotes: "From Oswald Spengler, we get a streamlined evolutionary accou...")
• 07:19, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Sacred Civics (Created page with "'''* Book: Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities. Edited ByJayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook. Routledge, 2022.''' URL = https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003199816 (open access) =Description= "Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and...")
• 07:07, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons Economies in Action (Created page with "'''* Article: Commons Economies in Action. Mutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems. Michel Bauwens, Rok Kranjc, and Jose Ramos''' URL = https://www.academia.edu/120039141/Commons_Economies_in_Action =Abstract= "We start this chapter by defining two key concepts-the commons and peer-to-peer production-and outlining a vision for a contributive economy based around them. Following the research by Elinor Ostrom, we define "the commons" as a set of shared resources that ar...")
• 06:10, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Techno-Elementals (Created page with "'''= concepts and book''' =The Concept= "Techno-elementals" are subtle beings that align themselves with human technology and artifacts." =The Book= '''* Book: Techno-Elementals. David Spangler.''' URL = https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/books/techno-elementals-david-spangler/p/9780936878591 "This book explores the emerging life of technology, It describes some of the effects the technological environment has on our humanity and the dangers and opportunities that...")
• 05:43, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Protocol Research Group (Created page with "'''= "The Open Protocol Research Group is Ven Gist, MacksWolf and Exeunt. We are a research initiative of Portland’s Ethereal Forest DAO."''' [https://www.extitutional.space/Articles/Speculative-P2P-and-the-Urban-Protocol-Underground] =More information= * Open Protocols * Open Protocolization Category:Movements Category:Protocols_and_Algorithms Category:Research")
• 05:37, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Protocol Undergrounds (Created page with "=Discussion= Exeunt: On Protocol Undergrounds: "This touches on a key dimension of open protocols, mainly that they are inextricably linked to cultural undergrounds. In a fruitful foray into a more archival approach to the protocol underground question, we looked at four historical cases: the California LSD scene of the 70s and 80s, the UK Free Party Movement, the West Coast Appropriate Technology Movement of the 70’s and the Bay Area S&M scene of the same time...")
• 05:22, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Territorialization (Created page with "=Definition= Extitutional.Space: "Process of defining boundaries and establishing order within a space, whether physical, conceptual, or social. Creates recognizable patterns and identities by organizing flows of energy or information. Always accompanied by potential deterritorialization—the undoing of these same boundaries." (https://www.extitutional.space/Glossary/territorialization) =More information= * Deterritorialization Category:Geography")
• 05:10, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Deterritorialization (Created page with "=Definition= Extitutional.Space: "The destabilizing of boundaries and fixed identities, freeing elements to form new assemblages. Movement that escapes established territories, creating lines of flight from rigid structures. Always followed by reterritorialization—the reorganization into new patterns and territories." (https://www.extitutional.space/Glossary/deterritorialization) =More information= * Territorialization Category:Geography")
• 04:51, 3 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Open Protocolization (Created page with "=Description= Exeunt: "Institutional protocols share (to varying degrees) the two features of being antimimetic (containing some dimension which discourages its reproduction, think military classification, NDAs, industrial secrets) and anti-empirical (resistant to inconvenient truths, interpretations or revisions that may have empirical veracity but be contrary to the interests of the organization or its authorities - see David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs for a wide-span...")
• 15:42, 2 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Libertarian Web3 Ideology (Created page with "=History= Igor Calzada: "The global political and economic landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, driven in large part by the decentralized principles of Web3 technologies. Central to this shift is Silicon Valley’s distinctive (crypto-)libertarian culture, which promotes individual autonomy, minimal government intervention, and the decentralization of power. These principles directly challenge traditional models of governance and sovereignty, marking a fu...")
• 10:50, 2 April 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Public AI Infrastructure for the Common Good (Created page with " '''* White Paper: Public AI Network, “Public AI: Infrastructure for the Common Good,” 10 August 2024,''' URL = https://publicai.network/whitepaper =Description= "In this paper, we set out a vision for a different path for AI. It starts with a recognition that societies don’t have to just consume the AI technologies shaping their lives—they can create them. That’s why we call for a new collective enterprise: building AI infrastructure for the common good....")