Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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My relationship with Satoshi Nakomoto: a historical review

An overview and discussion of the communication and relation between the Bitcoin founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, and the P2P Foundation’s founder, Michel…

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

Extra edition: Supporting the Valley of the Commons project in Vienna

We occasionally publish guest authors.

Aug 21 • 

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The Geopolitics of Cosmo-Localism (II): How the cosmo-local phygital commons change the world order

The new trinitary world order is East - West - Digital, NOT the ‘West vs the Rest’

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July 2025