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• 08:56, 10 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page White Holes (Created page with " * see also: Civilizational White Holes =Description= Will Ruddick explains: "Across the curvature of spacetime, there are regions where the known laws of physics bend toward mystery. Black holes: the endpoints of stellar collapse, where information compresses beyond the limits of imagination. But what if this isn’t the end? What if on the other side of that collapse, something new begins? Physicists have long speculated about white holes.. the time-reversed...")
• 08:03, 10 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tokenomic Automatons (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "Overly automated token contracts that try to manage value and behavior by formula instead of stewardship. They move numbers without reading context, often creating overload, artificial complexity and centralization rather than emergent, relational coordination. Simple, human protocols create clarity; over-engineered tokenomics create fog. Demurrage on a voucher, much like bonding curves, proved too automated for how communities actually c...")
• 07:47, 10 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Kuznets Cycle (Created page with " '''= The Kuznets 'Swing' is a 15-20 year hypothized economic cycle''' =Description= From the Wikipedia: "The Kuznets swing (or Kuznets cycle) is a claimed medium-range economic wave with a period of 15–25 years identified in 1930 by Simon Kuznets. Kuznets connected these waves with demographic processes, in particular with immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, that is why he denoted them as "demographic" or "building...")
• 16:18, 9 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Jose Luis Vivero Pol on Treating Food as a Commons (Created page with " Podcast via https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/jose-luis-vivero-pol-treating-food-as-commons-not-commodites =Description= David Bollier: “How is it possible that extreme hunger and food abundance coexist in today's world? Why is it that food, one of the most fundamental necessities of life, is so scarce for so many people even though the global food system produces so much and wastes so much? These questions have long bothered Jose Luis Vivero Pol, an a...")
• 16:16, 9 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Communal Individuation (Created page with " =Directory= (info below likely produced by ChatGPT) '''* Thinkers Who’ve Moved Jung Toward Communal Contexts''' "Several theorists and practitioners have attempted to bridge Jung’s individualism with collective frameworks: ==1. James Hillman & Archetypal Psychology== Communal Shift: Hillman, a post-Jungian, critiqued Jung’s focus on the individual’s "inner work" and argued for a soul-centric approach tied to culture, ecology, and community. Key Idea:...")
• 15:40, 9 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Urban Ecology Labs in Shanghai (Created page with " URL = ecology.shanghai-visual.org =Description= John Thackara: “In the Ecology and Cultures Innovation Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai, researchers promote the ecological literacy of citizens, and community-scale ecological participation, in ways that support the emergence of Ecological Civilisation in Chinese cities The work begins to enable action at a local level that meets national commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity. Strengthening fo...")
• 06:48, 9 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems (Created page with " '''* Book: Indigenous Insights for Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems. Learning from International Case Studies. By Shailesh Shukla, Priscilla Settee, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln.''' URL = https://canadianscholars.ca/book/indigenous-insights-for-planetary-health-and-sustainable-food-systems/ =Description= "Cultivating new partnerships with scholars, community organizations, and grassroots practitioners across the globe, this follow-up volume (to 'Indigenous Food...")
• 16:40, 8 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Oxford Bibliography on Food as Commons (Created page with " '''* Bibliography: Food as a Commons. By Jean-Marc Louvin. Food Studies / Oxford Bibliographies.''' URL = https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780197764381/obo-9780197764381-0050.xml =Description= Excerpted from the introduction and ‘general overview’: “Food as a commons is a new narrative around food and food systems. It is a new way of framing the production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumption of food anchored in the idea...")
• 16:27, 8 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page IConscious Model (Created page with "Video: The iConscious Model and the Myths of Enlightenment w/ Ted Strauss URL = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjTQRbXS6No =Description= "iConscious, a groundbreaking framework for accelerating human potential. In this event, we’ll explore how consciousness development can be mapped, measured, and cultivated, both individually and collectively. Drawing from decades of research in psychology, spirituality, and systems theory, Ted will share insights into the iConsc...")
• 16:24, 8 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Transitioning to Post-Growth Cities (Created page with " '''* Article: Transitioning to Post-Growth Cities. By Angelos Varvarousis, Giorgos Kallis, and Maria Kaika. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, V 1 N 1''' URL = https://utppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3138/jccpe-2025-0006 =ABSTRACT= “Cities around the world depend on growth, but such growth has become, to use Herman Daly’s term, uneconomic—the costs of growth, within and beyond the cities’ boundaries, far exceed the benefits. Post-growth cities are citi...")
• 04:58, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Terricide (Created page with " =Description= Carlos Tornel: “Following Mapuche thinker and defender Moira Millan, call a “terricide” – the systematic destruction of life through extractivism – these struggles are not only about rights or identity. They are about defending the very conditions for existence and opening space for a future built from the ground up, in relationship with others, human and more-than-human alike.” (https://berlinergazette.de/pluriversal-territories-reclaiming-...")
• 04:56, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Epistemic Extractivism (Created page with " =Description= Carlos Tornel: “As Ivan Illich once warned, powerful ideas can be hollowed out and turned into “plastic words” –flexible, fashionable terms that lose their original force. The pluriverse risks becoming one of them. Originally rooted in deep critiques of development, colonialism, and modernity, the concept has been increasingly absorbed into Global North academic discourse in ways that dilute its radical edge. This process, sometimes called episte...")
• 04:54, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Insurgent Universalism (Created page with " =Description= Carlos Tornel: “We need to return to what Japhy Wilson calls “insurgent universality” – a shared struggle that doesn’t erase difference but builds on it. This isn’t about relativism or vague pluralism, but about confronting the systems that deny the existence of other worlds. It means seeing the pluriverse not as a collage of cultures, but as a convergence of struggles that interrupt the dominant order. If the pluriverse is to remain a force...")
• 04:51, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Vitalik Buterin on Mitigating AI (Created page with " =Discussion= Vitalik Buterin: “Slowing down superintelligent AI is still good. It's less risky if superintelligent AI comes in 10 years than in 3 years, and it's even less risky if it comes in 30 years. Giving our civilization more time to prepare is good. How to do this is a challenging question. I think it's generally good that the proposed 10 year ban on state-level AI regulation in the US was rejected, but, especially after the failure of earlier proposals like...")
• 04:45, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms (Created page with " '''* Book: The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics And The Empire of Norms,” Olivier Roy''' =Discussion= Nathan Gardels: "Olivier Roy traces the origins of today’s pushback in the West to the ethos of the “desiring individual” that arose with the youth rebellion of the 1960s. That ethos, which sought liberation from the staid shackles of historically inherited and dominant traditions, coursed through all aspects of society over its long march through establ...")
• 04:40, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Search for Unconventional Terrestrial Intelligence (Created page with " =Description= Mike Levin: "SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, is one of those scientific endeavors that not only would have enormous impacts if it were to succeed, but is fascinating in itself, regardless of whether anything is found. Embarking on the search for alien life forces us to ask fundamental questions in science and philosophy. What exactly are we looking for – how do we know if we’ve found it? What is intelligence, defined broadly enoug...")
• 03:32, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Hyperhumanism (Created page with " '''= "a counterpoint to transhumanism. Instead of outsourcing our intelligence to machines, hyperhumanism asks us to reclaim the innate capacities of the human body, imagination, and relational field".''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO01BVw1Ls8] =More information= * Video: Carl Hayden Smith on Hyperhumanism Category:Webcasts Category:Movements Category:P2P Futures ")
• 03:30, 7 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Carl Hayden Smith on Hyperhumanism (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO01BVw1Ls8 =Description= Rudy De Waele: "Carl introduces hyperhumanism as a counterpoint to transhumanism. Instead of outsourcing our intelligence to machines, hyperhumanism asks us to reclaim the innate capacities of the human body, imagination, and relational field. He reminds us: we may not yet be fully human. The task is not optimisation, but slowing down, listening deeply, and inhabiting our natural limits with gr...")
• 08:00, 6 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Charles Marohn on the U.S. Strong Towns Movement (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7FnbCShBKc =Description= "America was a place of untold wealth in the post-war period. But today, many small towns are faltering and facing financial collapse. In this podcast, Strong Towns founder and president Charles Marohn sits down with Marc Barnes and Jacob Hyman to discuss how this collapse came about, and how to rebuild the small town." Category:Webcasts Category:Urbanism ")
• 02:17, 5 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism (Created page with " '''* Article: How Modern Dictators Survive: An Informational Theory of the New Authoritarianism. By Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman.''' URL = https://eui.eu/Documents/DepartmentsCentres/Economics/Seminarsevents/Guriev-Micro.pdf =Description= "We develop an informational theory of dictatorship. Dictators survive not because of their use of force or ideology but because they convince the public—rightly or wrongly—that they are competent. Citizens do not observe...")
• 09:46, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Staking (Created page with " =Description= Blockchain for Good: "Staking involves a user immobilizing and locking tokens in a smart contract. The protocol randomly assigns one of the participants the right to validate a block of transactions and receive a token reward. The "proof-of-stake" mechanism encourages users to lock up their tokens, as the probability of being chosen to validate a block of transactions is proportional to the number of tokens locked. The more tokens a user has locked, the...")
• 09:37, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Crypto-Economic Aspects of the EthicHub Financing Model (Created page with " =Interview= ==The Crypto-Economic Aspects of the EthicHub Financing Model== From an interview of Blockchain for Good with the founder, Jori Armbruster. Translated from the French. * "BfG: '''Let's start with the stablecoin* lending solution you are developing. How do the farmers convert the xDAI into their local currency?''' JA: For conversions, we rely on established exchange platforms. For example, in Mexico, it's [https://bitso.com/ Bitso]. The farmer coopera...")
• 09:18, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Plural Community (Created page with " =Description= Paul Mueller: "The plural community, seems the most attractive to classical liberals—though also to many conservatives. It shares the ecological community’s deep suspicion and dislike of centralized political power and sovereignty. It advocates voluntary associations and intermediate institutions both to preserve tradition and to protect individual liberty. Yet the kind of liberty pluralists concern themselves with is very different from how advocate...")
• 09:17, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Robert Nisbet's Typology of Societal Communities (Created page with " =Typology= * Plural Community * Revolutionary, cfr Robert Nisbet on the Tragic Aspects of Revolutionary Communities as Civilizational Forms‎ * Religious, see: Robert Nisbet on How the Religious Community and Civilizational Form Differs from the Political and the Military Form‎ * Military: ** Feudalism as a Militaristic Community‎ ** Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Rome‎ ** Robert Nisbet on the Milit...")
• 09:06, 4 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Public AI Intelligence (Created page with " =Discussion= Kevin Kelly: "Imagine 50 years from now a Public Intelligence that was a distributed, open-source, non-commercial artificial intelligence, operated like the internet, and available to the whole world. This public AI would be a federated system, not owned by any one entity, but powered by millions of participants to create an aggregate intelligence beyond what one host could offer. Public intelligence could be thought of as an inter-intelligence, an AI co...")
• 12:09, 3 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page OpenxAI Network (Created page with " URL = http://openxai.org "OpenxAI is '''a P2P permissionless AI protocol'''. What Bitcoin did for money, OpenxAI does for intelligence. Anyone anywhere can launch own and monetize AI apps agents and services fully on chain. No banks. No corporations. No gatekeepers. Intelligence becomes open sovereign unstoppable and GPU compute turns liquid with tokenized credits (tGPU). Built by core contributors from Fantom, Solana, ICP, Binance, NEAR, and AragonDAO, OpenxAI runs e...")
• 12:09, 3 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page P2P Permissionless AI Protocol (Created page with " * See: OpenxAI Network Category:Protocols and Algorithms ")
• 22:01, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Robert Nisbet on the Tragic Aspects of Revolutionary Communities as Civilizational Forms (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "the Revolutionary community. Though derivative, in a sense, of all three major types of community (Military, Political, and Religious), the revolutionary community has demonstrated incredible influence. From the French Revolution to the major communist revolutions of the twentieth century to the cultural Marxism and critical race theory of the twenty-first century, the revolutionary community is a force to be reckoned with. Nisbet does an...")
• 21:59, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Robert Nisbet on How the Religious Community and Civilizational Form Differs from the Political and the Military Form (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "The third major form of community contrasts with the first two. Christianity and the religious community have profoundly shaped western culture. Nisbet focuses on how subversive universal religions like Christianity are. Jesus demands complete obedience—even to the sacrificing of relationship with father, mother, sister, or brother. One’s relationship with Christ becomes the primary identity and the community of faith takes precedence o...")
• 21:55, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Feudalism as a Militaristic Community (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "Feudalism also developed as a kind of militaristic community. It was concerns about military order and community that captivated the attention of Machiavelli(1469–1527 AD). He was fascinated by the role of war and war-making in the state. Similarly, Grotius (1583–1645 AD) wrote his monumental works about international law and rights through the prism of just and unjust warfare. In fact, warfare seems remarkably prevalent in western Euro...")
• 21:53, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Rome (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "Nisbet tells a similar story about the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. Pressures from war were the crucible that forged Roman society into a military community. And the process was remarkably similar to what had occurred in Athens. In Rome, the idea of the “patria potestas” dominated during the Republic. Fathers were priest and king of the family. Families were their own religious and political communities. Every...")
• 21:51, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Robert Nisbet on the Military-Civilizational Transition in Ancient Greece (Created page with " =Discussion= Paul Mueller: "The three primary forms of community are the Military, the Political, and the Religious. More recent organizing forms of community are the Revolutionary, the Ecological, and the Plural communities. Each community emerges through conflict with other forms of community. All of them represent departures from what we might call the “original” human community of kinship. The military community powerfully competes with the community built ar...")
• 21:38, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Vocdoni (Created page with " =Description= Ferran Reyes: "Vocdoni is a decentralized, censorship-resistant and transparent digital voting system. The idea of building Vocdoni was conceived informally among crypto enthusiasts, cryptographers, and distributed systems experts stunned by the effectiveness of the censorship over the 2017 Catalan referendum. This group’s goal was to develop a decentralized governance system that would bypass any form of censorship anywhere in the world, similar to w...")
• 21:33, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized, Censorship-Resistant Digital Voting System (Created page with " =Example= * Vocdoni Category:Democracy Category:Crypto Governance ")
• 01:37, 2 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Big Asia (Created page with " '''* Article: Nile Green, Big Asia: Rethinking a Region, The American Historical Review, Volume 130, Issue 2, June 2025, Pages 646–651,''' URL = https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf178 =Description= "In recent years, after decades of increasing specialization, new approaches have emerged in Asian studies that focus on larger units of analysis. Some are predicated on transnational or transimperial spaces, whether based around language (the “Persianate world” and...")
• 12:14, 1 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Vietnam's Policy on AI Sovereignty (Created page with " Nathan Gardels: Vietnam is claiming 'AI Sovereignty': "Who gets to define the terms of intelligence itself? The stakes are stack-level choices — black-box dependence or modular improvisation; opacity or legibility; someone else’s roadmap or a sovereign design of your own … The decision is the difference between consuming intelligence as a service and composing it as an act of sovereignty. One rents a mind, the other trains its own in the wild. “This is, in...")
• 12:13, 1 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilizational AI (Created page with " =Discussion= Nathan Gardels: .. on Kai-Fu Lee on Civilizational AI. "LLMs will indeed carry the imprint of cultural-political values, he posited, not only in China, but everywhere. Different cultural zones with different values will censor different things. While the Chinese state might censor any criticism of the Party, in the West there is a kind of culturally driven “woke” or “anti-woke” censorship over sensitive speech on race and gender. In the Islamic w...")
• 08:46, 30 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State (Created page with " '''* Article: The Long Cycle of Global Politics and the Nation-State. George Modelski. Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 20, No. 2, Varieties of Modernization (Apr., 1978), pp. 214-235''' URL = https://www.jstor.org/stable/178047 Category:P2P Cycles Category:P2P State Approaches Category:Articles ")
• 08:35, 30 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Patio Community (Created page with " '''= "we are tech cooperatives from all over the world."''' URL = https://patio.coop =Description= "We are a global community of worker cooperatives, specialized in the development of digital technology, communication and design, located in 19 different countries (and growing), working on projects with an international scope. This translates into the permanent possibility of scaling the team to work on projects of dimensions that require it. It also allows us to ass...")
• 21:13, 28 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Universal Basic Capital (Created page with " =Description= Nathan Gardels: "Digital capitalism that are increasingly divorcing employment and income from productivity growth and wealth creation, generating an ever-accelerating gap between those who “own the robots” and those who labor for their livelihood. Policies that respond to this challenge would foster an ownership share for all in the wealth generated by intelligent machines that are diminishing or displacing gainful employment. The aim is to enhanc...")
• 20:36, 28 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Franciscan Procurator (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick explains: "These were not people gesturing at simplicity. They were radically committed to a life that mirrored the humility of Christ, barefoot and uncluttered, drawn to the edges of wealth and power. For them, money wasn’t just dangerous - it was spiritually radioactive. Saint Francis called it “the dung of the devil.” And indeed, they believed it left a residue, a smell, a heaviness in the soul. Touching coins was not a neutral act....")
• 18:44, 27 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mediatized Syndromes (Created page with " =Description= IPA/FLZ: “Disturbances shaped by screen culture, algorithmic influence, and cinematic imagery — and urges clinicians to consider how media environments infiltrate the unconscious.” (https://zizekanalysis.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/ipa-flz-strategy-report-for-combating-mediatized-syndromes/) =Discussion= ==Reclaiming the Unconscious in a Mediatized Age== "In today’s world, the screen has evolved far beyond a mere communication tool – it is...")
• 03:35, 26 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Expanded Now (Created page with " =Description= Richard Hames: "One of the most profound shifts needed in futures literacy is a reimagining of time itself. Western models teach us to see and experience time as linear, a relentless arc of progress, invariably teleological. But then many indigenous and non-Western traditions view time as cyclical—an underlying pulse with cadences of growth, decay, and renewal. The Māori concept of Whakapapa, for instance, reminds us that the past, the present, and t...")
• 11:53, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page China as the First Electrostate (Created page with " =Discussion= ==China as the First Electrostate== Chor Pharn: "An electrostate is a country whose power rests on surplus electrons and compute. Instead of living off scarcity rents — coal seams, oil wells, or gas pipelines — it manufactures abundance: solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, and FLOPs. It exports that abundance as electricity, synthetic fuels, and digital infrastructure. China is the world’s first electrostate. In 2023 it added more solar capacity...")
• 11:52, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Electro State (Created page with " =Discussion= ==China as the First Electrostate== Chor Pharn: "An electrostate is a country whose power rests on surplus electrons and compute. Instead of living off scarcity rents — coal seams, oil wells, or gas pipelines — it manufactures abundance: solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, and FLOPs. It exports that abundance as electricity, synthetic fuels, and digital infrastructure. China is the world’s first electrostate. In 2023 it added more solar capacit...")
• 05:44, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pooling Formula of Human Development (Created page with " >< The Coercion Formula of Human Development =Description= Will Ruddick: '''"The Pooling Formula: Communities maximize shared prosperity when pooled and kept promises outweigh the risk of broken promises and everyone’s ability to pull on the commons is capped."''' To say this in another way … We all do well when: People keep their promises more than they break them (you can count on help showing up), and There are clear limits so no one promises too muc...")
• 05:40, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Coercion Formula of Human Development (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "From outright slavery to modern wage coercion, societies have repeatedly optimized for surplus extraction by binding people into work they cannot freely refuse. The formula behind this is simple: '''The Coercion Formula: Elites maximize their gains when the profits they extract are larger than the costs of enforcing control.''' Whenever the costs of maintaining guards, laws, or surveillance are lower than the wealth squeezed from people...")
• 08:42, 23 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Trust-Minimized Scaling (Created page with " '''= "Solve every problem, at every scale, with the minimal mutual trust required among participants for success."''' [https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/beyond-szabo-scaling] =Context= Venkatesh Rao: '''1.''' "Early in the crypto story, circa 2009-13, there was a lot of talk of trustless architectures, but there has since been a growing appreciation that that’s too strong a term, and not even imaginable in principle, let alone practice. So phrases like “t...")
• 13:10, 20 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Threshold of Counterproductivity (Created page with " = concept of Ivan Illich =Description= Dougald Hine: "In his pamphlets of the 1970s, Illich analysed what he termed the “threshold of counterproductivity”: the point beyond which increasing the intensity or the amount of a given thing begins to produce the opposite of the intended effect. Returning to the study of history, he wrote of “the war on subsistence” and the destruction of the “vernacular” domain: the capacity of households to meet their own and...")
• 05:05, 18 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cratology (Created page with " = the study of power =Description= Peter Limberg: "Power is a language one can speak and hear, and it is not explicitly taught in school but rather concealed. The powerful do not want you to be power literate, because they do not want you to know they have power. Rule #1 among the power-savvy: maintaining power requires concealing it. Being knowledgeable about politics does not translate into having good power literacy. In fact, many who are interested in politics...")