User contributions for Mbauwens

10 April 2025

• 13:3213:32, 10 April 2025 diff hist +505‎ Category:Post-Capitalism ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 10 April 2025 diff hist +2,133‎ Eye of Value ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 10 April 2025 diff hist +3,634‎ Valueception ‎ →‎Discussion current
• 13:1813:18, 10 April 2025 diff hist +1,652‎ CosmoErotic Humanism ‎ →‎Discussion current
• 13:1713:17, 10 April 2025 diff hist +1,719‎ N Eye of Value ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= Daniel Thorson: "The philosophers Zachary Stein and Marc Gafni have developed this insight further through their framework of CosmoErotic Humanism. They speak of "the eye of value" – a perceptual capacity that allows us to directly apprehend the intrinsic worth of reality. This eye of value, when open and clarified, enables us to perceive not just that things have value but how value flows and manifests in the living world. It reveals a universe that i..."
• 13:1613:16, 10 April 2025 diff hist +1,744‎ Valueception ‎No edit summary
• 13:1413:14, 10 April 2025 diff hist +1,915‎ N Valueception ‎ Created page with " =Description= Daniel Thorson: "Iain McGilchrist's extensive research on the divided brain offers compelling insights into this question. In his groundbreaking works "The Master and His Emissary" and "The Matter With Things," McGilchrist introduces the concept of "valueception" – our capacity to directly perceive values as realities that exist independently of our preferences or judgments. This perceptual capacity, McGilchrist argues, is primarily mediated by the ri..."
• 13:1013:10, 10 April 2025 diff hist +437‎ N Microbiome Inspired Green Infrastructure ‎ Created page with "=Description= John Thackara, on a workshop held in Milan: "What would it mean to practice design in the knowledge that the well-being of humans, and non-humans, is inter-connected? A recent design workshop in Milan explored just this question: practical ways to make cities hospitable for all of life, not just human life." (https://thackara.com/civicecology/design-for-multi-species-cities/) Category:Ecology Category:Design" current
• 13:0813:08, 10 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ Microbes and Social Equity Working Group ‎ →‎More information current
• 13:0613:06, 10 April 2025 diff hist +269‎ Microbes and Social Equity Working Group ‎No edit summary
• 13:0113:01, 10 April 2025 diff hist +118‎ Strong Gods ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 10 April 2025 diff hist +1,905‎ N Potluck Nation ‎ Created page with "= an expression of the modality of 'Cultural Pluralism', which is opposed to the idea of the 'Metling Pot' in the U.S. =Description= Elbo Patel: " A different way of envisioning it is to think of the United States not as a melting pot, but as a potluck nation. Potlucks are civic spaces that both embody and celebrate pluralism. They rely on the contributions of a diverse community. If people don’t bring an offering, the potluck doesn’t exist. If everyone brings t..." current
• 12:1412:14, 10 April 2025 diff hist +4,777‎ From Modes of Production to the Resurrection of the Body ‎ →‎Excerpts
• 12:0312:03, 10 April 2025 diff hist +387‎ Category:Media ‎ →‎Short Quotes
• 06:2506:25, 10 April 2025 diff hist +1,307‎ N Maker Metaphysics ‎ Created page with " =Description= Extitutional.space: "An immanent feature of extitutional life, maker metaphysics aren’t stated explicitly, but expressed in the actions of makers. Makers may be Christians, Buddhists, Nihilists, but their actions and collaborations - during the time when they are making - operate under an open & practical ontology with the following features: * Subject and object positions unsettle, expand and retract. Intersubjectivity (including with the inorganic..." current
• 06:1606:16, 10 April 2025 diff hist −12‎ Category:Labor ‎ →‎Jem Bendell's Strategy for a Deep Adaptationist Commons Transition
• 06:0606:06, 10 April 2025 diff hist +44‎ Category:Labor ‎ →‎Jem Bendell's Strategy for a Deep Adaptationist Commons Transition
• 06:0306:03, 10 April 2025 diff hist +601‎ Category:Politics ‎ →‎What Can We Do? current
• 06:0106:01, 10 April 2025 diff hist +648‎ Category:Movements ‎ →‎Key Movements current
• 06:0006:00, 10 April 2025 diff hist +600‎ Category:Labor ‎ →‎Worthy of attention and support
• 05:5805:58, 10 April 2025 diff hist +7,657‎ N Jem Bendell's Strategy for a Deep Adaptationist Commons Transition ‎ Created page with " =Description= Jem Bendell: "1. we can’t adequately prepare for collapse from within the system that’s causing it. We must lay the foundations of a new system; 2. we’ll need to produce and distribute food and other essentials, and maintain houses, energy and water infrastructure outside of the corporate system – and that requires working people to do it; 3. modern social and environmental movements in the UK (and beyond) have failed to engage work..." current
• 05:4805:48, 10 April 2025 diff hist +770‎ Religion ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 10 April 2025 diff hist +247‎ N 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 " current
• 05:2805:28, 10 April 2025 diff hist +172‎ N Civilization State ‎ Created page with " * see our entry on: Civilizational States Category:P2P State Approaches Category:Governance Category:Civilizational Analysis Category:Encyclopedia " current

9 April 2025

• 08:2108:21, 9 April 2025 diff hist 0‎ Entangled Assets and Property ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2108:21, 9 April 2025 diff hist +870‎ N 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..."
• 07:3107:31, 9 April 2025 diff hist +96‎ History of the Intellectual Dark Web ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 9 April 2025 diff hist +2,158‎ N 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..."
• 06:5106:51, 9 April 2025 diff hist +2,752‎ N 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..." current
• 06:4806:48, 9 April 2025 diff hist +2,878‎ N 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..." current
• 06:3906:39, 9 April 2025 diff hist +3,759‎ N 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..." current
• 06:3706:37, 9 April 2025 diff hist +3,743‎ N 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..." current
• 06:3606:36, 9 April 2025 diff hist +3,625‎ Cultural Materialism ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 9 April 2025 diff hist +16‎ Ecological Backgrounds of the Deep Infrastructural Shifts in the History of Human Civilization ‎ →‎Discussion current
• 05:5905:59, 9 April 2025 diff hist +569‎ Adoption of New Technologies Is Accompanied by an Increase in Energy Use which Trigger Social Transformations ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5505:55, 9 April 2025 diff hist +387‎ Adoption of New Technologies Is Accompanied by an Increase in Energy Use which Trigger Social Transformations ‎No edit summary
• 05:5305:53, 9 April 2025 diff hist +3,057‎ N 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..."
• 05:4105:41, 9 April 2025 diff hist +61‎ Category:Thermodynamic Efficiencies ‎ →‎Key Books
• 05:3905:39, 9 April 2025 diff hist +2,760‎ N 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..." current
• 05:3705:37, 9 April 2025 diff hist +8‎ Political Economy of Thermodynamics ‎ →‎The third law : there is no agreement among scientists current
• 05:3505:35, 9 April 2025 diff hist +2,161‎ N 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..." current
• 05:3105:31, 9 April 2025 diff hist +1,681‎ Syntropy ‎No edit summary current

8 April 2025

• 16:0616:06, 8 April 2025 diff hist +834‎ Patriarchy ‎No edit summary
• 08:2208:22, 8 April 2025 diff hist +6,174‎ John Robb on the Political Power of Networked Organizations ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 8 April 2025 diff hist +728‎ Grassroots Economics Field Guide ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 8 April 2025 diff hist +1,349‎ N 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..." current
• 07:5507:55, 8 April 2025 diff hist +1,811‎ N 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..."
• 07:4607:46, 8 April 2025 diff hist +976‎ N 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..." current
• 07:2707:27, 8 April 2025 diff hist +2,805‎ N 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,..." current
• 06:4906:49, 8 April 2025 diff hist +631‎ Category:Mutual Coordination ‎ →‎Projects of particular interest to the P2P Foundation