User contributions for Mbauwens

16 August 2025

• 13:2713:27, 16 August 2025 diff hist +22,366‎ N State of the Commons in 2025 ‎ Created page with " =Source= '''* Article: The State of the Commons in 2025 : What is to be done ? What should be the strategy of the commoners, in the context of the ‘long durée’ ? Part One: Historical Contextualization. By Michel Bauwens, Jun 08, 2025''' URL = https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-state-of-the-commons-in-2025 =Text= Michel Bauwens: This will again be a kind of longish article, in which we first place the commons, as an institution and as perenni..." current
• 13:2013:20, 16 August 2025 diff hist +50‎ Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens ‎No edit summary
• 13:1713:17, 16 August 2025 diff hist +61‎ Bitcoin - Discussion ‎ →‎The Bitcoin Scaling War current
• 13:1713:17, 16 August 2025 diff hist +59‎ Bitcoin - Discussion ‎ →‎Bitcoin as Centralized
• 13:1613:16, 16 August 2025 diff hist +23,919‎ Bitcoin - Discussion ‎ →‎More discussion
• 13:1213:12, 16 August 2025 diff hist +1,840‎ Regeneration ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 16 August 2025 diff hist +389‎ N Epistemicide ‎ Created page with "=Definition= Boaventura de Sousa Santos : "Epistemicide is the killing, silencing, annihilation, or devaluing of a knowledge system. Epistemicide happens when epistemic injustices are persistent, systematic, and collectively work as a structured oppression of particular ways of knowing." ~(Understanding Epistemicide) (https://www.cais2021.ca/talk/1.patin/) Category:Intelligence" current
• 13:0713:07, 16 August 2025 diff hist +4,105‎ N Franciscan Economics ‎ Created page with " =Principles= From Will Ruddick, applying it to Commitment Pooling: “Principles of Franciscan Economics '''* Sacredness of Creation''' In Franciscan thought, nature is not a resource but a relative (Brother Sun, Sister Water). Commitment Pooling honors this by allowing communities to issue, pool and redeem commitments (for past and future actions) tied to ecological care, such as reforestation, soil regeneration, or water protection. These commitments recognize..." current
• 13:0213:02, 16 August 2025 diff hist +1,610‎ N True Commons - Sensorica ‎ Created page with " '''= The 'True Commons' coordination infrastructure, as built by Sensorica: “A digital commons platform that enables organization-agnostic, capture-resistant resource sharing built on Holochain and ValueFlows economic modeling.”''' [https://github.com/Sensorica/true_commons] =Description= "True Commons built on REA + Valueflows + hREA + Holochain is a distributed multi-agent systems with reflexivity, learning, and local memory to support high-level adaptive stig..." current
• 13:0013:00, 16 August 2025 diff hist +5,091‎ Subsidiarity ‎ →‎Discussion
• 12:5212:52, 16 August 2025 diff hist +2,989‎ N Holochain, Mattereum and OVN as Framework for Peer Production ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: Integrating Holochain, Mattereum and OVN: A Framework for Peer Production. Sensorica, 2025.''' URL = https://soushi888.github.io/alternef-digital-garden/blog/ovn-hrea-mattereum =Description= "In this paper we explore a short list of p2p technologies carefully chosen to satisfy our needs in a specific material peer production context. We contribute to the p2p movement by bringing our 15 years of experience in open-source, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) hardware d..." current
• 08:4808:48, 16 August 2025 diff hist +290‎ N European Decentralization Institute ‎ Created page with " '''= "an independent, non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing decentralisation as a strategic foundation for a sovereign digital Europe".''' URL = https://eudecentralisation.org/ Category:Movements Category:Policy Category:Europe Category:Protocols and Algorithms " current

15 August 2025

• 11:5911:59, 15 August 2025 diff hist −507‎ Nakamoto Satoshi ‎No edit summary
• 08:3708:37, 15 August 2025 diff hist +23,865‎ N Should We Expect a Spiritual Revolution ‎ Created page with " =Source= '''* Article: Can and should we expect a ‘spiritual’ revolution any time soon ? Introducing the distinction between ‘hard’ vs ‘soft’ metamemes, and between coordination engines and purification generators. Michel Bauwens, Apr 23, 2025''' URL = https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/can-and-should-we-expect-a-spiritual =Text= Michel Bauwens: We start with a quote: - ''"First we have the emergence of a new way of production and gover..." current
• 08:3108:31, 15 August 2025 diff hist +58‎ Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens ‎No edit summary
• 08:0708:07, 15 August 2025 diff hist +1,305‎ Homoploutia ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0208:02, 15 August 2025 diff hist +3,954‎ Crisis ‎ →‎Description current
• 07:5907:59, 15 August 2025 diff hist +3,967‎ Imperiogenesis ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4707:47, 15 August 2025 diff hist +1,141‎ N Venture of Islam ‎ Created page with " '''* Book: Marshall Hodgson. The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization.''' =Description= From the Wikipedia: “Marshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson (April 11, 1922 – June 10, 1968) was an American historian and scholar of Islamic studies, best known for his pioneering work on Islamic civilization and his broader contributions to world history. He taught at the University of Chicago, where he developed an influential yearlong course on Islamic..." current
• 07:4507:45, 15 August 2025 diff hist +1,710‎ Homoploutia ‎No edit summary
• 06:5906:59, 15 August 2025 diff hist +658‎ Category:Regenerative Approaches ‎No edit summary
• 06:5606:56, 15 August 2025 diff hist +2,381‎ N Pathways to Regeneration ‎ Created page with " '''* Book: Pathways to Regeneration: Hope and Resilience through Anticipatory Design. Stephen Demeulenaere and Scott Morris. Allo Capital, 2025.''' URL = https://www.allo.capital/resources/pathways-to-regeneration [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ui8i8h5Hsn0jNjIm6kTYXF3pm7IQifYS/view?usp=sharing pdf] =Description= "Facing escalating ecological and financial crises, Scott Morris and Stephen DeMeulenaere propose Anticipatory Design, a proactive methodology for creati..."
• 06:0606:06, 15 August 2025 diff hist +30‎ Satoshi Nakamoto ‎No edit summary
• 06:0506:05, 15 August 2025 diff hist +1,499‎ Satoshi Nakamoto ‎No edit summary

13 August 2025

• 07:3207:32, 13 August 2025 diff hist +937‎ N Contestable Control Mechanisms for DAO's ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: Economic DAO Governance: A Contestable Control Approach. By Jeff Strnad. Blockchain: Research and Applications, May 2025.''' URL = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720925000338? =Description= "Creating a regime of temporary contestable control: The mechanism avoids potential public choice problems inherent in voting approaches but at the same time provides a vehicle that can enhance and secure value that inheres to DAO voting and..." current
• 06:4106:41, 13 August 2025 diff hist +1,044‎ N First Principles Thinkers ‎ Created page with " =Contextual Quote= "In essence, to be a “first-principles” thinker is to renounce all received wisdom and act upon life like a disinterested engineer. Gather the raw materials you have to work with, assess the relevant natural laws, and identify a metric or two that you need to optimize for. Break whatever rules you can, written or unwritten, to find the most economical path to an optimum. The more rules you break, the less likely others will follow, or beat you to..." current
• 06:3906:39, 13 August 2025 diff hist +83‎ Category:Civilizational Analysis ‎ →‎Thread 6: The Big History approaches
• 06:3706:37, 13 August 2025 diff hist −65‎ Edgar Morin on Civilizational Politics ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0106:01, 13 August 2025 diff hist +2,301‎ N Edgar Morin's Methodology for Complex Thought ‎ Created page with " =Discussion= ==Edgar Morin's Methodology for Complex Thought== Tim Winton: "Edgar Morin's ... approach is not to work primarily from the establishment of a philosophical position or theoretical framework. He deliberately constructs a Method , a kind of ‘active inquiry’, which takes as its central and foundational rational the refusal to be pinned down in dualistic thought. ‘Morin’ s broader vision of complexity and of thought explicitly connects reason..." current

12 August 2025

• 08:4908:49, 12 August 2025 diff hist +25,232‎ N Is Trump the Unwitting Historical Agent of Cosmolocal Accelerationism ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: Is Trump the unwitting historical agent of Cosmolocal Accelerationism ? Can we turn tragedy into opportunity ? By Michel Bauwens. Apr 07, 2025''' URL = https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/is-trump-the-unwitting-historical =Text= ==Part One: The meaning of Liberation Day== The Russian revolutionary leader Lenin is often quoted saying: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." While what he ac..." current
• 08:4608:46, 12 August 2025 diff hist +89‎ Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens ‎No edit summary
• 08:4408:44, 12 August 2025 diff hist +77‎ What Kind of Spiritual Revival Can We Expect at the End of This Civilizational Cycle ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4308:43, 12 August 2025 diff hist +25,520‎ N What Kind of Spiritual Revival Can We Expect at the End of This Civilizational Cycle ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: What kind of religious / spiritual revival can we expect at the end of this civilizational cycle ? Revisiting the premises for a participatory spirituality: The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective. By Michel Bauwens. Mar 24, 2025''' URL = =Text= ==Part One: Reviewing Macro-Historical Insights about the Civilizational Evolution of Spirituality and Religion== Michel Bauwens: I’ll have to admit that I do not know the answer to that question, but all..."
• 08:3908:39, 12 August 2025 diff hist +110‎ Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens ‎No edit summary
• 08:3608:36, 12 August 2025 diff hist +124‎ Category:Mutual Coordination ‎No edit summary
• 08:3508:35, 12 August 2025 diff hist +23,539‎ N Looking at the Evolution of our World Through the Lens of Coordination Systems ‎ Created page with " =Context= This is the text of the foreword I wrote for the publication of the Chinese translation of our book, ‘Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto’. With thanks to Uncommons and the 706 group for this translation! =Text= Michel Bauwens: The book you are about to read, just recently translated into Chinese, was written some years ago, the bulk of it was written in a kind of ‘Walden 3’ context, in a forest dwelling in the region of Madison, Wisconsin, with..." current
• 08:3208:32, 12 August 2025 diff hist +90‎ Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens ‎ →‎Contents
• 08:2308:23, 12 August 2025 diff hist +891‎ N Knowledge Commoning ‎ Created page with " =Description= Simon Grant explains: "the process of setting up a knowledge commons; and after that, maintaining and improving it." The steps outlined (and detailed in the article): 1. Find the others who are in line to share the commons and be the commoners. 2. See what technologies, both informatic and social, those commoners can work with. 3. Do enough ontological commoning to establish a shared base ontology. 4. Collectively, scan everywhere for similar..."
• 08:2108:21, 12 August 2025 diff hist +1,983‎ N How Collectivistic Cultures Compete More Than Individualistic Cultures ‎ Created page with " '''* Article/Chapter: Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: A Review of How Collectivistic Cultures Compete More Than Individualistic Cultures . Kaidi Wu, Thomas Talhelm.''' In the book: . The Oxford Handbook of the Psychology of Competition. Stephen M. Garcia (ed.) et al. Pages 611–642 [https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190060800.013.26 doi] URL = https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/37081/chapter-abstract/402464070? =Description= “In this chapter, we review cul..." current
• 08:1908:19, 12 August 2025 diff hist +878‎ N AMPL ‎ Created page with " URL = https://ampleforth.org/ =Description= "is a price-stable but supply volatile cryptocurrency that targets the CPI-adjusted dollar. It is used as a unit of account and collateral asset. The AMPL protocol automatically increases or decreases the quantity of tokens in user wallets — such that the price of AMPL reverts to 1 CPI-adjusted dollar. AMPL greatly simplifies the creation of on-chain derivatives. Traditionally complex financial operations like tranchin..." current
• 08:1808:18, 12 August 2025 diff hist +45‎ N Decentralized Stablecoins ‎ Created page with " * see: AMPL Category:Crypto Economy " current
• 08:1708:17, 12 August 2025 diff hist +1,943‎ Search - Understanding Google ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 12 August 2025 diff hist −2‎ Open Value Network Digital Resource License ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 12 August 2025 diff hist +958‎ N Open Value Network Digital Resource License ‎ Created page with " '''= The OVN Digital Resource License v1.0''' URL = https://ovn.world/index.php?title=OVN_license =Description= “The OVN Digital Resource License v1.0 is a legal instrument designed to protect and promote the commons. It builds upon the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) and integrates principles from the Peer Production License and Open Value Network (OVN) models. This License recognizes the right of contributors to fair and transparent benefit sharing..."
• 08:1308:13, 12 August 2025 diff hist +1,529‎ N Great Holocene Transformation ‎ Created page with " '''* Book: The Great Holocene Transformation. What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies? Peter Turchin. Beresta Books, 2025.''' URL = https://berestabooks.com/books/the-great-holocene-transformation =Description= “Why do the 99.9% of humanity live in large-scale societies organized as states? During the Holocene (the last 10,000 years), the scale and complexity of human societies have undergone a dramatic transformation, so spectac..." current
• 08:1008:10, 12 August 2025 diff hist +1,377‎ N Does Deliberative Democracy Work ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: Does Deliberative Democracy Work ? David M. Ryfe. Annual Review of Political Science Volume 8, 2005, Vol. 8:49-71 (Volume publication date June 2005)''' [https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.8.032904.154633 doi] URL = https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev.polisci.8.032904.154633 =Abstract= “The growing literature on deliberative democratic practice finds that deliberation is a difficult and relatively rare form of communic..." current
• 07:5307:53, 12 August 2025 diff hist +1,581‎ Extitution ‎ →‎Discussion current
• 07:5207:52, 12 August 2025 diff hist 0‎ Bioregional Coordination Framework ‎ →‎Institutions vs. Extitutions: Beyond Territorial Organization current
• 07:5107:51, 12 August 2025 diff hist +6,742‎ N Bioregional Coordination Framework ‎ Created page with "'''* Article: Bioregional Coordination: A Hybrid Framework for Network Commons Governance. Benjamin Life.''' URL = [https://docs.google.com/document/d/179XOBqVFUyA9-ulLmzCvCgW9hn8sOMkt5lZJgfM_4k4/edit?] =Abstract= "The bioregional movement represents a critical evolution in how human communities organize themselves in relationship to place-based ecological systems. Moving beyond traditional governance models that privilege territorial control and hierarchical authori..."
• 07:4107:41, 12 August 2025 diff hist +1,573‎ N From Non-Scalability to Cosmolocal Scalability ‎ Created page with " '''* Article: Another Scalability is Possible! From Non-Scalability to Cosmolocal Scalability. By Vasilis Kostakis, Lucas Lemos, and Asimina Kouvara. TripleC, Vol. 22 No. 2 (2024).''' URL = https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1535 =Abstract= "This article addresses Anna Tsing’s critique of capitalist scalability by introducing the concept of “cosmolocal scalability” as an alternative to approaches that prioritise “scale-at-all-costs.” Co..." current