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• 06:36, 20 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Credible Neutrality in Web3 Funding Mechanisms (Created page with " = research project '''* Credible Neutrality Through Mechanism Design in Dedicated Domain Allocation: A Commons-Based Approach to Collective Intelligence.''' URL = ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cepg2JIlEJjAVhbwTFEYdRQ2q1ukk2ADEnbKqY1OcXM/edit]) =Description= '''1.''' "This research explores how credible neutrality can emerge through mechanism design in dedicated domain allocation systems, specifically within the context of commons-based collective intellige...")
• 13:03, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Created page with " '''* Book: Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe.''' URL = =Discussion= Venkatesh Rao: "The book clearly draws out the difference between the technology of the printing press, and the protocols of print culture that took root in the abstract soil it created. The emergent European effects of these protocols — the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment — soon reshaped the entire world. Based on Eisenstein’s model,...")
• 07:56, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cosmopolitan Communities (Created page with " =Discussion= Ralph Horat and Jan Baeriswyl: “While village communities have for a long time been the place where social bonds were being forged and one’s own identity was being formed, that changed radically in the course of industrialization. Our everyday life has been divided into private and professional life, our space into individualistic housing estates and private office buildings, and our social environment into a circle of family and friends and work coll...")
• 07:41, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stephen DeMeulenaere (Created page with " '''= monetary activist and author of Pathways to Regeneration''' =Bio= "Stephen DeMeulenaere first became involved with community currencies in 1990, as a member of the Victoria Local Exchange Trading System offering gardening and painting services while studying Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Victoria in Canada. He was the Administrator of Victoria LETS from 1992-1996, then turned his focus to community currency developments in Mexico and A...")
• 07:39, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Scott Morris (Created page with " = monetary activist and author of Pathways to Regeneration =Bio= "Scott Morris began working with community currencies in 2009 after having graduated into the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Economics from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. After his family lost their business and home in the crisis, he developed a personal appreciation for how Main St. paid the price for Wall St. speculation, a...")
• 07:33, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Autonomy Income (Created page with " =Description= Translated from Frédéric Bosqué, via DeepSeek: "Piloted in Lustrac, it is a form of unconditional basic income, distributed in local community currency to residents to cover their essential needs. Its value is backed by a relocalized, sustainable, and vital production system—including healthy food, water cycles, waste recycling, renewable energy, sustainable housing, shared vehicles, and more—provided by a cooperative territorial ecosystem within...")
• 07:29, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Local Community Currency (Created page with " =Description= Translated from Frédéric Bosqué, via DeepSeek: "It is a (in our case, digital) currency issued and used within a limited territory, complementing the euro, with the aim of relocalizing the economy, strengthening community exchanges, and promoting durable and essential goods and services for residents. Managed democratically by citizens, LCCs bring meaning back to every transaction by directing spending toward ecological and solidarity-based initiative...")
• 07:25, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Patient Capital with Moderate Returns (Created page with " =Description= Frédéric Bosqué: "Financing the transition requires long-term investments that accept modest returns rather than immediate profits. Unlike "fast-moving" capital seeking quick gains, patient capital invests responsibly over the long term, accepting reduced and deferred benefits. It aims to move finance away from speculation and refocus it on creating real value, supporting worthwhile projects that take time to mature (renewable energy, sustainable agri...")
• 07:37, 18 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Institutional Self-Negation (Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: "Let's talk about what bioregional backbone organizations can uniquely provide. These are traditional nonprofits, but with a radically different purpose. Think of them as translation membranes — interfaces between the dying world of empire and the emerging world of bioregional commons. They speak the old language when necessary: receiving grants, signing contracts, interfacing with government agencies, providing tax receipts. But here'...")
• 07:32, 18 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bioregional Commoning (Created page with " =Contextual Quote= ==digital networks enable commoning at bioregional scale== < ''We're taking ancient wisdom about how to share and govern together, and we're applying it with modern tools at the scale of living systems''. > "We can practice collective governance across entire watersheds, with thousands of participants, in ways our ancestors couldn't imagine. Networks become the soil in which bioregional commoning can grow. I also want to honor David Henke and th...")
• 07:26, 18 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Radio-Biometric Data (Created page with " =Description= Jem Bendell: "Scientists at the Italian university have developed a method, nicknamed “WhoFi”, which uses the subtle disturbances we make when passing through WiFi signals to identify us with over 95% accuracy, even through walls. This is not surveillance in the form we’ve grown used to, such as cameras, facial recognition, or GPS. It is something more ambient, invisible, and insidious, especially given the widespread roll out of 5G, which uses sim...")
• 07:24, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Limitations of Blockchain and DAOs for Complex Economic Processes (Created page with " '''* Article: Beyond the Ledger: Why Blockchain and DAOs Fall Short for Complex Economic Organizations, and How OVNs Point the Way Forward Synthesized with AI from documents developed by Tiberius Brastaviceanu, with the help of Sacha Pignot. Sensorica, 2025.''' URL = https://sensoricablog.blogspot.com/2025/07/beyond-ledger-why-blockchain-and-daos.html =Description= "We are witnessing a profound transformation in the architecture of global economic activity. The trad...")
• 06:51, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Measuring Societal Complexity (Created page with " =Discussion= Peter Peregrine: "It seems clear that societal scale, complexity, and integration have all increased in a roughly linear fashion over the past 12,000 years. Thus, there is clear evidence for unilineal trends in cultural evolution such that societal scale, complexity, and integration all tend to increase over time. The presence of these unilineal evolutionary trends clearly supports the validity of cultural evolutionary research, and contradicts critiques...")
• 06:42, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Measuring Changes in Societal Scale (Created page with " = < ''societal scale has increased in a roughly linear fashion over the past 12,000 years'' > [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245534439_Atlas_of_Cultural_Evolution] Peter Peregrine: "Societal Scale: '''Changes in societal scale are perhaps best measured by the Urbanization and Population Density variables'''. Graphs showing the means of these variables at 1000-year intervals for the last 12,000 years are given in Figures 2.A.4 and 2.A.5. Means have clearly...")
• 06:29, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Archaeoethnology (Created page with " =Description= Peter N. Peregrine: "Comparative research is a necessary tool in evolutionary science. It is only through comparison that we can identify diversity, and it is the creation and maintenance of diversity that evolutionary science attempts to understand. Within anthropology, comparative research is usually called cross-cultural research or ethnology. The unit of analysis in such research is the culture. What constitutes a culture is rather loosely defined,...")
• 06:24, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Atlas of Cultural Evolution (Created page with " '''= an archaeological database created by Peter N. Peregrine.''' URL = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245534439_Atlas_of_Cultural_Evolution =Description= "The Atlas of Cultural Evolution provides basic data on the evolution of cultural complexity using the Outline of Archaeological Traditions sample. The Outline of Archaeological Traditions constitutes a sampling universe from which cases can be drawn for diachronic cross-cultural research, an activity I...")
• 06:19, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page D-Place (Created page with " '''= "Database of Places, Languages, Culture and Environment"''' URL = https://d-place.org/ [https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/research/d-place/] =Description= "From the foods we eat and the houses we construct, to our religious practices and political organisation, to who we can marry and the types of games we teach our children, the diversity of cultural practices in the world is astounding. Our ability to visualise and understand this dive...")
• 13:42, 16 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mathematics of History (Created page with "* '''* Book: The Mathematics of History. By Alexandre Deulofeu.''' URL = =Description= From the Wikipedia: "Deulofeu argued that civilizations and empires go through cycles which correspond to the natural cycles of living beings. Each civilization passes through a minimum of three 1700-year cycles. As part of civilizations, empires have an average lifespan of 550 years. He also stated that by knowing the nature of these cycles, it could be possible to modify th...")
• 13:27, 16 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 13:09, 16 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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")
• 13:07, 16 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 13:02, 16 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 12:52, 16 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:48, 16 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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 ")
• 08:37, 15 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 07:47, 15 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 06:56, 15 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 07:32, 13 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 06:41, 13 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 06:01, 13 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:49, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:43, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:35, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:23, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:21, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:19, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:18, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized Stablecoins (Created page with " * see: AMPL Category:Crypto Economy ")
• 08:14, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:13, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 08:10, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 07:51, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 07:41, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page 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...")
• 07:29, 12 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Diverse Intelligence (Created page with " =Description= Michael Levin: "an interdisciplinary effort to develop frameworks with which to recognize, build, and ethically relate to intelligences in novel embodiments. These include swarms, software AIs, embodied autonomous robotics, basal cognition of non-brainy life forms (from cells to organs), synthetic biological life forms, and all manner of chimeras, hybrids, hybrots, and other fusions of evolved and engineered components." (https://iai.tv/articles/pattern...")
• 08:46, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Constitution for the Commons - Netherlands (Created page with " URL = https://constitutievoordecommons.nl/ =Description= Translated from the Dutch: “What is the Constitution for the Commons? * A Protective Barrier The Constitution for the Commons is a protective barrier against violations of our right to autonomous self-organization. And it is a breeding ground for stronger Commons. It provides the Commons with protection, potential, and space to develop, acting as a critical friend to challenge and keep them aware of the...")
• 08:43, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Private Countries (Created page with " =History= Raymond Craib: “Meanwhile, moneyed tech titans in Northern California have proposed building a new city on thousands of acres they surreptitiously bought over the previous decade in Solano County. El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele is planning a Bitcoin City on the slopes of a volcano while his government profits from the imprisonment of people illegally deported from the United States. Argentina is currently presided over by Javier Milei, a chain saw...")
• 08:22, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Urbit (Created page with " =Status= ==The Rise and Fall of Urbit== Adina Glickstein: "Yarvin’s stated aim for Urbit was to create a decentralized network where each user owns all his data: a private virtual machine, protected from surveillance and attention economy ad-tech. The network’s address space—its virtual real estate—is divided into a federated hierarchy of “planets,” “stars,” and “galaxies,” each unique according to a 28-bit identifier connected to the Ethereum bl...")
• 08:20, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ecological Futures (Created page with " '''* Book: Chew, Sing C. Ecological Futures: What History Can Teach Us. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.''' URL = =Description= The final volume in Chew’s trilogy shifts focus to contemporary and future ecological challenges, drawing lessons from historical patterns of environmental degradation. Chew analyzes modern industrialization, climate change, and resource depletion through the lens of past civilizational collapses, arguing that humanity’s survival depends on...")
• 08:18, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page World Ecological Degradation (Created page with " '''* Book: Chew, Sing C. World Ecological Degradation: Accumulation, Urbanization, and Deforestation, 3000 B.C.–A.D. 2000. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.''' URL = =Description= The first volume of Chew’s trilogy examines the long-term environmental consequences of human economic and urban development. Focusing on deforestation, soil depletion, and urbanization from ancient civilizations to the modern era, Chew argues that ecological degradation is not a recent pheno...")
• 08:09, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page New Languages (Created page with " '''* Book: Carpenter, Edmund, and Marshall McLuhan. The New Languages. MIT Press, 1973 (originally Explorations in Communication).''' URL = =Description= Co-authored by anthropologist Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, The New Languages investigates how emerging media technologies—such as television, computers, and electronic communication—create entirely new forms of language and expression. The book blends anthropology and media theory, arguing that these...")
• 08:08, 9 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Media and Formal Cause (Created page with " '''* Book: McLuhan, Marshall, and Eric McLuhan. Media and Formal Cause. Gingko Press, 2011.''' URL = =Description= Published posthumously, Media and Formal Cause explores the Aristotelian concept of formal causation in relation to media theory. The McLuhans argue that media function as formal causes, structuring human perception and cognition in ways that transcend content. The book examines how different media environments—from oral traditions to digital networks...")