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- 12:47, 3 September 2025 Elite Knowledge Networks (hist | edit) [2,801 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= Nel: "Inderjeet Parmar (2019) terms this the soft machinery of elite knowledge networks: “flows of people, money, and ideas” that institutionalize consensus from Washington to Berlin. The Fulbright Program, the German Marshall Fund, Atlantik-Brücke, the Munich Security Conference, and the Bilderberg Meetings are formative ecosystems. They sort, school, and elevate those who can carry the worldview forward. Critically, these networks are not passive...")
- 14:44, 2 September 2025 Protopolis Lab (hist | edit) [6,084 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''= "investigates and prototypes civic protocols and emerging technologies that enable collective life to flourish—in tomorrow’s polis, networks, and habitats".''' URL = =Description= About Protopolis Lab: "Protopolis” fuses “proto” and “polis,” evoking the iterative prototyping of civic protocols within the city-as-commons—a public realm of governance, reciprocity, and collective imagination. The physical and digital are increasingly collapsing in...")
- 14:15, 2 September 2025 Tribal Fictive Kinship (hist | edit) [1,214 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Description= John Robb: "For the vast majority of our history as modern humans, we lived in tribes. Tribes are the organizational boost that lets us overcome the scaling limits of families and clans bound by blood relations. To achieve this, tribes employ a concept known as fictive kinship. Fictive kinship is a connection that allows people to form a familial relationship with someone who isn’t actually related by blood. It’s fictive in that it isn’t actually...")
- 07:57, 29 August 2025 Liberal Way of War (hist | edit) [4,339 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= Adam Tooze: "The liberal way of war. This has four essential components: Normative, Historical, Tactical, Political. In normative terms, the enemy is the bad guy - uncivilized, the aggressor, standing in the way of progress. They must be erased. “Exterminate the brutes” is the battlecry. Though the particular forms of stigmatization are distinctive, this general structure is not particular to liberal conceptions of war. It is the combination of thi...")
- 07:41, 29 August 2025 Fourth Major Evolutionary Transition (hist | edit) [1,969 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " =Discussion= =='Axial Entities of the Noosphere as the Fourth 'Major Evolutionary Transition'== David Ronfeldt: "This will be a "Fourth Major Evolutionary Transition” (MET) from a TIMN and NOO perspective. The first occurred when the oral information-communications revolution enabled the tribal form to take hold ages ago; The second, when writing and printing enabled the hierarchical institutional form to consolidate a couple millennia ago; The third...")
- 07:20, 29 August 2025 Axial Entities of the Noosphere (hist | edit) [8,809 bytes] Mbauwens (talk | contribs) (Created page with " = David Ronfeldt suggests the emergence of “axial entities of the noosphere” (AEONs; or AXEONs?) =Contextual Quote= '''1.''' "If something crucial arose during the primeval evolution of the geosphere, and something equivalent recurred in the ancient evolution of the biosphere, then it’s bound to recur as well in the evolution of the noosphere. Geological evolution led to the formation of enormous tectonic plates under-girding Earth’s continents. They are s...")