Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens
Contents
Less well edited primary versions of my articles are collected here:
My 'Fourth Civilization' Substack newsletter is at https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/archive
- 1: Towards a Fourth Generation Civilization. Why this substack by Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation.
- 2: Towards Mutual Coordination Economics. Why we should pay attention to mutual coordination as a concept for the next civilization.
- 3: On the Importance of Seed Forms for the Next Civilization: An overview of fifteen years of research by the P2P Foundation.
- 4: Why We Need Real-Time Public Ledger Organizations: RTPLO's might be the 'commons-based' institutions that we need to change the value regime.
- 5: Why We Need 'Crypto for Real': A proposal to link up the open ecosystems for crypto coordination, with the real-life mutualization of provisioning.
- 6: The Fate of Tribes in a Cosmo-Local World: A more personal travelogue that starts in a Lebanese mountain community and ends up in a network nation.
- 7: The Transhumanist Technological Quest Is a Religious Quest: Recovering our technological unconscious.
- 8: Understanding the Emergence of Neo-Venetian Crypto-Networks: Why the prefigurative self-provisioning of mutual coordination infrastructures by the crypto-nomadic networks has a macro-historical importance.
- 12: Why Ordo-Communalism is Necessary: on the Ordo-Communal State.
- 13: Getting Ready for the Five Thousand Year Shift in Value Regime: An overview of signposts towards the civilizational shift in the direction of <contribution-based>, <thermodynamically informed> <mutual coordination> economics.
- 14: From the Commons for Capital to Capital for the Commons: How an important book, Assets in Common, introduces the shift towards a Stewardship Economy.
- 15: How Peer Production and Web3 Governance Mechanisms May Prefigure a Isonomic World Order: Is what we are waiting for perhaps not Democracy, but Isonomia ?
- 16: What Kind of Money Do We Need for the Next Value Revolution ?: Beyond fiat money and crypto, how do we measure and reward systemic contributions, i.e. contribution to common infrastructural and care value ?
- 17. Who Can Change the World Today ? Is there a new agent of historical change ? Could it be the commoners ? But if so: allied to who ?
- 18. What Would a Commons-Centric Society or Civilization Look Like ? (Ethical Economy + Partner State + Commons): Adding the commons institutions to the mix: Transforming societies from a national bi-institutional format (market+state) to a cosmo-local tri-institutional format (market-state + commons).
- 19: Why Human Contributive Labor Remains the Creative Principle of Human Society: The salvific and ex-tropic implications of the medieval Christian vision of human work as spiritual activity. (with excerpts from the study: “From Modes of Production to the Resurrection of the Body".
- 20: The Construction of the Post-Civilizational Civium Has Begun: Why the confederation of more than a dozen translocal popup villages in Chiang Mai is a historical pivot
- 21: A Global History of Societal Regulation: Why commons-based institutions now need to regulate the market and state, ‘cosmo-locally’.
- 22: The Cosmo-Local Plan for Our Next Civilization. Towards a convergence of the local bioregional resilient production efforts with the global coordination and 'Capital for the Commons' capacities of Web3.
- 23: The Three Civilizational Priorities of the Next Societal Transition: Can We Truly Change Our Civilizational Model? What we can learn from Peter Pogany's 'Rethinking the World'.
- 24: AI and the Advent of the Age of the Brahmin Workers. The pivot towards P2P AI has just begun.
- 29. The State of the Commons in 2025
- 30: Suggestions for a Commons-Based Strategy of Social Change
Thematic Clustering
Characteristics of the Transition
Intro:
- Suggestions for a Commons-Based Strategy of Social Change
Process
- Three Scenarios for a Turbo-Charged Crypto-Future: The Age of Trans-Local Self-Organized CoordiNations
- What Would a Commons-Centric Society or Civilization Look Like ? (Ethical Economy + Partner State + Commons): Adding the commons institutions to the mix: Transforming societies from a national bi-institutional format (market+state) to a cosmo-local tri-institutional format (market-state + commons).
Characteristics
- Towards Mutual Coordination Economics. Why we should pay attention to mutual coordination as a concept for the next civilization.
Discussion
Controversies
- [[AI and the Advent of the Age of the Brahmin Workers. The pivot towards P2P AI has just begun.