Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

Michel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization

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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Michel Bauwens
Aug 19, 2025
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< no analysis that is confined to the ‘West vs the Rest’ will be adequate in explaining geopolitics. There is a third kid on the block: the translocal commons networks. >

Most people who look at national politics still look at it as the enduring struggle between those that want more ‘free markets’, and those that want more ‘state regulation’. Similarly, …

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