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Curated Article: Sources for Articulating a Contemporary Commons Theory Beyond Ostrom
Our aim is to reconnect with the 'integrative' Cosmo-Biological Traditions while fully utilizing the capacities of emerging Cosmo-Local Infrastructures
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Michel Bauwens
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Curated Article: Sources to Understand the Emerging ‘Economy of Mutual Coordination’
Understanding the transition from an immature technosphere, which destroys the biosphere, to a ‘mature technosphere’, which lives in harmony with the…
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Michel Bauwens
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June 2024

From the Commons for Capital to Capital for the Commons
How an important book, Assets in Common, introduces the shift towards a Stewardship Economy
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Michel Bauwens
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Curated article: An overview of research into the emergence of the contributory economy
An overview of fifteen years of research into commons-based peer production, by the P2P Foundation and its network of collaborators.
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Michel Bauwens
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May 2024

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…
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Michel Bauwens
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An ab-so-lu-te-ly UN-SEXY Subject: The Ordo-Communal State
Why Ordo-Communalism is the way to go.
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Michel Bauwens
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April 2024

The Age of Trans-Local Self-Organized CoordiNations: What will it do to our Empire of Nation-States ?
Drawing on Macro-History to Understand the Network State Debates
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Michel Bauwens
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Curated Article: A bibliography for studying the history, not just of the world, but of the universe
Getting a handle on the insights of the macro-historians and the Big Historians
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Michel Bauwens
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Curated Article on the Role of the Commons in Civilizational Transitions
A proposed syllabus for self-learning
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Michel Bauwens
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March 2024

Should we worry about the cooptation of the commons ?
A dialogue about the emerging governance in the Age of the Commons, with Tiberius Brastavicenau
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Michel Bauwens
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Ken Wilber, Integral Politics, and Identity Issues
Introduction to the Autobiography of Michel Bauwens
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Michel Bauwens
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February 2024

What do we mean when we say we are shifting from a capitalist 'commodity' economy, to a commons-based 'contributive' economy ?
... AND, how do we get there ?
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Michel Bauwens
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