Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

The AI Commons Licence: A Pattern Language For Commons-Based AI Deployment Terms

The second installment in our Civilizational AI series is a guest editorial by Em Lenartowicz.

Jan 6 • Michel Bauwens

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Towards 'Civilizational' AI : our central task in 2026

Join the important conversation at WAMOTOPIA 2026 in Chiang Mai, on January 21.

Jan 1 • Michel Bauwens

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December 2025

Anthropological Reflections on the Monetary System

The end-of-year article by Mosadoluwa Fasasi is followed by an extensive collection of quotes to help us think about the multiple aspects of money and…

Dec 24, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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Where Will Technology and Rural Revitalization Lead Us? And what do Paris-tasting croissants in an isolated Chinese mountain village have to…

A third party account, and guest travelogue, about Michel Bauwens' visit to grassroots communities in Mainland China.

Dec 14, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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November 2025

The role of the Chinese developmental model in the context of a history of societal coordination

A rewrite of my X diary series, #BauwensInChina, on X.com/mbauwens, with 70 entries so far.

Nov 28, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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Industrial Commoning and the Chinese P2P Paradox: What China Owes to Open Models

#BauwensInChina: reflections of a Commons-Oriented Traveler to the Chinese grassroots communities, who are seeking to tackle the meaning crisis amongst…

Nov 14, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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The problem with money may not be what you think: an alternative analysis of the root of the problem.

A guest editorial by Michel Foata-Prestavoine. The Problem is the Transactional Symmetry, and the proposed solution is the Common Good Unit, a…

Nov 8, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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The frontier of human coordination has moved East

A Review of Chor Pharn’s “Coordination Limit” Series, by guest writer Mosadoluwa Fasasi

Nov 5, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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October 2025

Extra Edition: A Case for DeSci in Africa.

A guest editorial by By Mosadoluwa Fasasi of DeSci Nigeria on the history of the Decentralized Science Movement and its uptake in Africa

Oct 27, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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The Network State in Context

On the essential contrast between the post-universalist Civilization States, Networked Sovereignty, and the Archipelago of Regenerative Projects

Oct 21, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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September 2025

We need Commons-Based Instruments of Expansion!!

Dispatches from (Zu)Kas, the civilization-building Web3 Oasis in Southern Turkey

Sep 22, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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Extra edition: A month-long course on the Commons and P2P Transition

Join the Philosophy Portal every Sunday evening in September

Sep 4, 2025 • Michel Bauwens

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