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• 04:48, 8 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Waste as a Critique (Created page with " '''* Book: Hervé Corvellec. Waste as a Critique. 2025 (open-access publication)''' URL = https://academic.oup.com/book/59620? =Description= Publisher: "This volume shows how waste in its manifold variety provides an innovative starting point for interrogating twenty-first-century society. Waste in and of itself, along with those who work with it, may suffer from social stigma. As an epistemological point of departure however, waste offers an advantageous platform...")
• 04:03, 8 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance (Created page with " '''= "Alliance to coordinate policy efforts among the teams building core onchain infrastructure".''' [https://paragraph.com/@epaa/announcing-ethereum-protocol-advocacy-alliance] URL = =Description= EPAA: "the Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance to coordinate policy efforts among the teams building core onchain infrastructure. Together, we secure over $100 billion in assets through open, non-custodial protocols that operate without intermediaries. Drawing on our pr...")
• 03:54, 8 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized AI Agents (Created page with " '''= DeAgents (DeAI): agents "that train, reason, transact, and even reproduce without human-in-the-loop".''' [https://thedrcenter.org/from-laws-to-ledgers-why-protocols-not-policy-must-tame-self-sovereign-ai/] =Description= Helena Rong and Botao 'Amber' Hu: "'''The Mirage of “Governable” Decentralized Intelligence''' In light of the current development of the “agentic web,” we are perhaps witnessing the birth of a new digital species: decentralized AI agen...")
• 07:18, 7 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ideocritique (Created page with " =Description= Tom Amarque: "Ideocritique may be defined as a method of analyzing, evaluating, and opposing ideological and religious systems through the disciplined application of critical thinking. It likewise entails opposition to all forms of critique of these systems that are themselves uncritical—those grounded not in reasoned analysis but in affective bias, resentment, prejudice, or mere opinion. While critical thinking is a general capacity, Ideocritique con...")
• 03:46, 7 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Process of Network Formation (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Life: ==Formalizing Networks: From Invisible to Visible== "Formalizing networks, making them visible and explicit, serves multiple essential functions. First, it enables better information flow. When organizations understand themselves as nodes within a network, they can share knowledge more intelligently, avoiding duplication while building on each other’s learning. Information becomes a resource that circulates through the system rather th...")
• 03:42, 7 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mycelial Sensing Process (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Life: "This brings us to the mycelial sensing of networks, the intuitive, relational process of discovering how initiatives and organizations can best relate to one another within a larger ecological context. One of the most powerful aspects of networks is discovery. In graph theory terms, networks consist of nodes (entities) connected by edges (relationships). As we begin to see technological representations of these networks, layered, intercon...")
• 03:37, 7 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Computationalism (Created page with " =Description= E.M. Burlingame: "This 21st-century doctrine supplants sacred scriptures with silicon wafers, inscribing its holy texts in lines of code and algorithms. Its unelected divine right monarchs—the “Silicon Sovereigns”—evangelize a dogma where terms like “neural networks,” “technological singularity,” and “artificial general superintelligence” transcend mere technical jargon to become sacrosanct articles of faith. In this emerging theology...")
• 03:28, 7 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page David Ronfeldt on Rethinking Civil Society from a Network Society Perspective (Created page with " = considerations in the context of the TIMN Framework, see Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks =Discussion= David Ronfeldt: "RETHINKING CIVIL SOCIETY FROM A TIMN PERSPECTIVE Defining “civil society” is a slippery task. The concept’s origins date back to ancient Greek philosophy. It gained its modern liberal momentum during the 18th and 19th Centuries when British Enlightenment philosophers Adam Ferguson, John Locke, Adam Smith, and German idealist G.F...")
• 03:26, 7 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page David Ronfeldt on the Differences Between Tribes and Networks (Created page with " =Discussion= David Ronfeldt: "KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TIMN’S TRIBES AND NETWORKS To reiterate my revised understanding of TIMN, the Tribes form is as much about networks as is the Networks form. Tribes and Networks both rest on network forms of organization, belief, and behavior that are meant to assure mutual togetherness. Tribes and Networks qualify as network-centric forms in ways that further distinguish them from Institutions and Markets. As such, Tribes and...")
• 11:37, 6 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bhutan’s Mindfulness City (Created page with " =Description= IPE News: "Since we explored the origin story of the Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan during our Startup Cities Live, it’s good to highlight how progressive they have been and the benefits for the network society industry. Earlier this year, Draper Nation ran an e-hackathon in Bhutan to develop the core tools of a borderless digital economy. Now, it is Edge City that visited the Bhutanese city to explore potential synergies. The trip is worth a loo...")
• 04:06, 4 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Frank Furedi on the Spirit of Populism (Created page with " =Discussion= Frank Furedi: "he spirit of populism summed up Outwardly the spirit of populism appears as a backlash against the cultural politics of society’s elites. To be sure this spirit communicates sentiments that are hostile to cultural politics that seek to undermine the consciousness of nation, and which extoll the supposed virtues of multiculturalism, diversity, mass migration and gender ideology. However, the populist zeitgeist is not simply a negative reje...")
• 02:56, 4 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page James Quilligan on the Social Contract for the Planetary Commons (Created page with " Podcast via https://cpg.buzzsprout.com/2543607/episodes/17962803-a-social-contract-for-the-planetary-commons-a-conversation-with-james-quilligan =Description= “In this episode, we sit down with one of our hosts, James Bernard Quilligan. With over three decades of experience in international development and monetary policy—as both analyst and administrator—Quilligan now serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Center for New Critical Politics and Governance. In...")
• 02:50, 4 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Andreas Lind and Cecilie Friis on Planetary Policies (Created page with " Podcast via https://cpg.buzzsprout.com/2543607/episodes/17981754-towards-planetary-politics-a-conversation-with-concito =Description= “In this episode, we speak with senior advisors Andreas Lind and Cecilie Friis from the Danish think tank CONCITO about their project From Planetary Boundaries to Planetary Policies. They explore how addressing the climate crisis requires confronting the broader web of interconnected environmental challenges—and how Earth-system sc...")
• 02:46, 4 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Choices (Created page with " '''= “podcast 'Planetary Choices' is created and produced by the Research Center for New Critical Politics and Governance.”''' URL = https://cpg.buzzsprout.com/ =Description= “he concept of 'The Planetary' has gained increasing traction in almost all scientific disciplines. From physics, to litterature, to history, law and economics - planetary thinking and policy making is taking more sophisticated shapes, amounting to an emerging new paradigm. In season 1, c...")
• 01:52, 4 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civic Prophet (Created page with " =Description= Gary Riccio: "Building on Henry Mintzberg’s (2015) tripartite schema of the public, private, and plural sectors, the Civic Prophet can be conceived as a mediating archetype that rebalances these domains through moral imagination rather than administrative or market power. While the public sector legitimizes itself through law and governance, and the private sector through efficiency and innovation, the plural sector—rooted in community, association,...")
• 01:42, 4 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Proximity Delusion (Created page with " '''= "our inability to emotionally process events beyond our immediate spatial and social sphere".''' [https://richarddavidhames.substack.com/p/the-getting-of-wisdom-part-two] Category:Relational Category:Intelligence ")
• 14:04, 3 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Coasean Singularity (Created page with " =Description= Via John Robb: "Firms form to minimize transaction costs (Coase). AI agents will significantly reduce transaction costs across the entire economy. If transaction costs decline markedly, the need to create firms would evaporate, necessitating a complete reevaluation of economics and market design as existing corporations dissolve and new markets emerge." (https://johnrobb.substack.com/p/an-economic-singularity) Category:Patterns Category:P2P T...")
• 05:25, 3 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stephen DeMeulenaere on Redesigning Money for Regenerative Economies (Created page with " Video via https://lightforestworld.substack.com/p/ep-21-redesigning-money-paths-to =Description= Dev Lewis: "We’ve been told a story that human society evolved from primitive barter to superior modern money. That linear story flattens thousands of years of value exchanged through reciprocity, mutual aid, and gift economies. Systems that nourished people and ecological relationships. Modern (fiat) money and its associated systems have a valuable role to play but i...")
• 04:50, 2 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Entropology (Created page with " =Description= Via eoht: "In 1955, French anthropologist and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss, in his Sad Tropics, coined the term "entropology". In 1961, Levi-Strauss, in his A World on Wane, by Lévi-Strauss, defined things as follows: - ''“Entropology, not anthropology, should be the word for the discipline that devotes itself to the study of this process of disintegration in its most highly evolved forms.”'' The term can loosely be thought of as subjects in...")
• 04:41, 2 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Yogyakarta Principles (Created page with " '''= charter which expresses the demand that states must cease registering sex on all legal documents, including birth certificates''' URL = https://yogyakartaprinciples.org/ =Description= "In 2006, in response to well-documented patterns of abuse, a distinguished group of international human rights experts met in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to outline a set of international principles relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. The result was the Yogyakarta Princ...")
• 04:32, 2 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Exonets (Created page with " =Discussion= David Ronfeldt: "Today’s cutting-edge ideas about networks — e.g., “decentralized autonomous organizations” (DAOs), “distributed cooperative organizations” (DisCOs), “open value networks” (OVNs), holacracy, holarchy, and the like — look insufficient for scaling upwards, downwards, and sideways to structure a new realm. Something grander, bigger in scale, more interconnectable across “silos,” perhaps “cosmo-local,” looks needed. A...")
• 04:30, 2 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page From Tribes, via Networks, to Exonets (Created page with " = a 2025 update to David Ronfeldt's TIMN framework, i.e. Tribes, Institutions, Markets, and Networks =Contextual Quote= < "''Tribes is about emphasizing inter-personal kinship, lineage, identity, solidarity, community, sharing, etc. to form a close-knit society. In contrast, information-age Networks is ideally about reaching out to others while emphasizing openness, inclusion, collaboration, etc. in flat network designs.''" > =Discussion= David Ronfeldt: ==...")
• 03:38, 2 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Biomimicry Index (Created page with " = "indicator for assessing how well human organizations respect the principles of living systems." [https://de-seta.com/mes-creations] =Description= De Seta: "The Biomimicry Index is a conceptual indicator for assessing how well human organizations respect the principles of living systems. It allows for the evaluation of what I consider to be the five fundamental principles of life: cellular structure, the capacity for growth and complexification, metabolism, homeos...")
• 06:00, 1 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Noospherics (Created page with " = proposal, by Francis Heylighen, "for a new science of how ideas evolve, interact, and self-organize across the planetary web of minds" [https://francisheylighen.substack.com/p/why-we-need-a-science-of-noospherics] =Description= Francis Heylighen: "Noospherics seeks to understand the dynamics of the world’s collective mind much as biology studies the living cell or ecology studies the biosphere. It asks: * How do ideas form, combine, and evolve through commun...")
• 01:51, 1 November 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Framework for Understanding Pathologies in Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Created page with " '''* Article / dedicated website: Psychopathia Machinalis: A Nosological Framework for Understanding Pathologies in Advanced Artificial Intelligence. by Nell Watson and Ali Hessami.''' URL = https://www.psychopathia.ai/? =Description= "As artificial intelligence (AI) systems attain greater autonomy and complex environmental interactions, they begin to exhibit behavioral anomalies that, by analogy, resemble psychopathologies observed in humans. This paper introduces...")
• 14:36, 30 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Category:Guilds (Created page with " New section created in October 2025. ")
• 03:17, 30 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Technocalvinism (Created page with " '''= "the idea that technological development is preordained beyond human control".''' [https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/technocalvinism] =Discussion= Luke Drago: "Technocalvinism: the idea that technological development is preordained beyond human control, leaving you blameless for your actions. It’s named after John Calvin’s concept of double predestination: the idea that God preordains who is saved and who is damned to hell before their first breath. Techn...")
• 00:37, 29 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Achieving Post-Growth Well-Being Within Planetary Boundaries (Created page with " '''* Article: Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Kallis, Giorgos et al. The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 9, Issue 1, e62 - e78''' URL = https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(24)00310-3/fulltext =Abstract= "There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we explore...")
• 14:02, 28 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Post-National Professional Elite Formation (Created page with " =Discussion= Alice Maz: "If the sole means of organizing people and resources to accomplish great ends and spread one's culture and values is the nation-state, then the logic of bellicose nationalism is sound. With the industrial, social, and communications technologies necessary to coordinate on the scale of tens or hundreds of millions, and strict firewalls between populations based on immutable inborn traits, one has no choice but to fight and die for their motherl...")
• 13:57, 28 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Neomedieval Invisible Colleges of the Present and Future Digital Age (Created page with " =Discussion= Alice Maz: "There are three classes of people who will be able to navigate the electronic age. Some will become hardened to everything, impassive rocks in a raging ocean. They will check out and focus on other things like work, family, hobbies, or pet interests where they can thoroughly vet everything they consume. Others will be captured by ideas that are relatively benign, establishing a mutualistic relationship where these memeplexes rely on them to s...")
• 13:49, 28 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decline of the Nation-State in an Era of Shared Transnational Values (Created page with " =Discussion= Alice Maz: "The nation-state commanded loyalty from people on the basis of born membership in a particular group, and these groups were considered discrete entities with no overlap. The future of the state in the 21st century is unlikely to be the bastion of a nation, the sole protector of the national people, demanding absolute loyalty and immense sacrifice. Instead, the state is more likely to take the form of a service provider, competing with other st...")
• 08:56, 28 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Max Horkheimer on the Society of Rackets (Created page with " '''= Horkheimer on how a society without fathers can evolve toxic brotherhoods, i.e. 'rackets', including in the world of labor; this decribed the 20th cy western society according to him''' =Discussion= Anton Jaeger, in American Affairs: "As he noted in the late 1930s, “procurers, condottieri, manorial lords and guilds have always protected and at the same time exploited their clients. Protection is the archetype of domination.” In the twentieth century, this t...")
• 03:54, 28 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Slow Media (Created page with " =Discussion= “Slow media takes the speed out of information, news, and political communication by reducing the amount of information and communication flows. Users engage more deeply with each other and with content. Slow media does not distract users with advertisements, it is not based on user surveillance, and it is not undertaken to yield profit. It is not simply a different form of media consumption, but an alternative way of organising and doing media – a spa...")
• 03:51, 28 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Public Sphere (Created page with " =Description= Christian Fuchs: “Political communication is an important and indispensable aspect of the political system in all models of democracy. In general terms, it can be said that the public is a central mechanism of the political system. By ‘public’ we generally understand goods and spaces that are ‘open to all’ (Habermas, 1989: 1). One speaks, for example, of public education, public buildings, public parks, public squares, public assemblies, public...")
• 03:43, 28 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Conspiracy Theory (Created page with " =Typology= Peter Limberger: “In “Of Conspiracy Theories” (1999), philosopher Brian Keely defines conspiracy theory as: A proposed explanation of some historical event (or events) in terms of the significant causal agency of a relatively small group of persons, the conspirators acting in secret. He makes the following distinction: • Warranted Conspiracy Theories: have credible evidence, display epistemic openness (beliefs are open to change), and are scope-l...")
• 03:50, 27 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cybernetics for the 21st Century (Created page with " '''* Book: Cybernetics for the 21st Century: Vol. 1 – Epistemological Reconstruction (2024)''' URL = =Description= "An edited collection by philosopher Yuk Hui that revisits cybernetics through a global and philosophical lens. The book gathers essays from thinkers such as Katherine Hayles, Andrew Pickering, Dorion Sagan, and others, tracing how cybernetic ideas evolved across different regions — from Europe and the U.S. to China, Japan, and Latin America. Rath...")
• 03:12, 27 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized Township Government in China (Created page with " =Discussion= Zhuoran Li: "China is one of the most decentralized states in the world in terms of fiscal spending. More than 85 percent of Chinese government spending comes from local governments. In particular, township governments shoulder the most important governance responsibilities, such as education, healthcare, and public welfare. Using the township-level government as an example, it’s instructive to explore exactly how these all-important local systems actu...")
• 02:48, 27 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Glocal Low- Tech (Created page with " '''* Report (French-language): Rapport de la Recherche-Action. GLOCAL LOW-TECH « Exploration des voies, méthodes et outils pour un essor systémique de la Low-Tech ». Période 10/11/2020 - 10/08/2022. Michel Foata-Prestavoine. Ademe et al., 2022.''' URL = [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxnnNNVwYUJSPBlKofphtPvCxf-EoXUX/view Report] ''"this French research program took place between 2020 and 2022"'' =Description= "This document reports on the collaborative act...")
• 00:06, 27 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Shor Pharn (Created page with " '''= Chor Pharn is a Singapore-based futurist, who has been focusing on the history of civilization as human coordination'''. He pays particular attention to the new Chinese mode, the Sino Stack. =Intellectual Bio= "The essays of the past six months—Eyes Wide Shut, Machine Surplus vs Human Surplus, The Stack: The New Sovereignty, and now The New Rome—trace one continuous argument: that the core challenge of the twenty-first century is how to convert machine s...")
• 23:45, 26 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Sino Stack (Created page with " =Context= The concept of a technological, infrastructural or even 'civilizational' Stack refers to the book: * The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty. Benjamin Bratton. MIT Press, 2016. For more details see also, Stack Sovereignty. Specifically on China, see: The Grey Canon vs the Red Canon in the Sino-Stack. =Characteristics= Chor Pharn: "The Sino-stack is best understood not as a single institution but as an ecosystem of new organisational for...")
• 23:16, 26 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Grey Canon vs the Red Canon in the Sino-Stack (Created page with " =Discussion= Chor Pharn: For five centuries, the West defined progress through three interlocking inventions: markets, bureaucracies, and corporations. Markets turned private knowledge into public price; bureaucracies turned rule into impersonality; corporations turned capital into scale. Together they solved the same problem—how to coordinate millions of decisions without collapsing into chaos. These institutions were designed for an age in which human intelligence...")
• 12:18, 26 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Machine Surplus vs Human Surplus (Created page with " =Description= Chor Pharn: "Machine surplus measures the density of energy, compute, and capital that can produce without human input. Human surplus measures the state’s ability to educate, employ, and attach meaning to its population. High values on both axes describe coherence; low values on both describe stagnation. Most of the world now sits between them, pulled diagonally by technology and demography." (https://thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/machine-civilisatio...")
• 07:20, 26 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Guilds of the Engineer-Saints (Created page with " =Discussion= Chor Pharn: 1. The Emergence of the Engineer-Saint "Every civilisation breeds a hero suited to its machinery. The age of conquest had its warrior; the age of invention, its genius. The managerial plateau had its optimiser — patient, procedural, and doomed. He had built the system that now out-reasoned him. Surrounded by perfect functioning, he no longer knew what counted as achievement. His hands still typed, his reports still glowed, but the purpos...")
• 07:01, 26 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs moved page Type-1 Civilisation to Type-1 Civilization (s to z, american spelling)
• 07:00, 26 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page History of the Machine Republic (Created page with " =History= Chor Pharn places the emergence of Type-1 Civilization in the context of the History of the Machine Republic: Chor Pharn: "Every civilisation is founded more than once. The Machine Republic has already drafted four constitutions, each in a different medium: fuel, code, wire, and mercy. Together they form the living record of the planet’s four wars—the Metabolic, Machine, Stack, and Metaphysical—the revolutions that rewrote not just power, but aut...")
• 12:37, 25 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Proposals for the Ecological and Thermodynamic Reformation of the Monetary System (Created page with " =Context= Michel Foata-Prestavoine in his proposal for Common Good Units, i.e. "Unités de Bien Commun (UBiC)" , refers to two prior proposals for monetary reform going in the same direction, namely: 1. Couppey-Soubeyran, J., Delandre, P., & Sersiron, A. (2024). Le pouvoir de la monnaie : Transformons la monnaie pour transformer la société. Les Liens qui libèrent. 2. Grandjean, A., & Dufrêne, N. (2020). Une monnaie écologique : Pour sauver la planète. Odil...")
• 11:46, 25 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Common Good Units (Created page with " '''= commons-friendly (or commons-centric) monetary reform proposal, called "Unités de Bien Commun (UBiC)" in French, proposed by Michel Foata-Prestavoine.''' =Description= Michel Foata-Prestavoine: Translated from the French by ChatGPT: "What we call Common Good Units (UBiC) would be a field of monetary exploration that recognizes the obsolescence of any tool incapable of integrating that with every transaction, there is not only an exchange of private value—re...")
• 05:52, 25 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Power in a Machine Republic (Created page with " =Discussion= Excerpted from Chor Pharn: * '''Energy-compute – Infrastructure as power''' "The machine surplus is physical before it is digital. America’s industrial strategy merges the energy transition with AI deployment: electrify, compute, subsidise. Data-centre investment exceeds $100 billion a quarter and will surpass $3 trillion within three years. The Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce have become coordination ministries—issuing credits,...")
• 05:36, 25 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Carlos Perez on How AI Agents May Dissolve the Corporation (Created page with " =Discussion= From an X-thread by Carlos E. Perez: 1/16 I just fell down a rabbit hole reading a new paper from economists at MIT & Harvard. Their prediction is wild: We're on the verge of a "Coasean Singularity"—a future where AI agents make markets so efficient that the very idea of a 'company' starts to crumble. 🤯 A thread 👇 2/16 First, a quick 101: Why do companies even exist? A Nobel-winning economist named Ronald Coase answered this in 1937. He said...")
• 05:29, 25 October 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Carlos Perez on How AI Solves the Cost of Coordination Problem (Created page with " =Discussion= From an X-thread by Carlos E. Perez: "1/ Everyone's debating whether AI will take our jobs. But we're missing the bigger story: AI is about to solve the problem that made us choose between markets and planning in the first place. Thread on the coordination revolution no one's talking about 2/ Here's the paradox that should keep you up at night: We can build enough housing for everyone. We have the construction capacity. Yet homelessness persists....")