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Break the third information barrier: A trialectical approach to cosmopolitan localization of our world. https://t.co/PGAAi9TJVK "This essay presents the theoretical foundations of the P2P📷 Foundation’s work on civilizational transitions within the context of the Hegelian and Marxist traditions of dialectical analysis, while outlining several departures from these methods: a focus on trialectics rather than dialectics, and a new ‘revolutionary subject’: the Commoner, engaged in regenerative, productive communities📷 organized and coordinated in a ‘cosmo-local’ manner. ˧ It argues that the current crisis of the market-state system—characterized by ecological overshoot, political fragmentation, and the limits of both hierarchical authority (command and planning) and market pricing—opens the possibility of a post-civilizational transition toward a ‘Type-1 Civilization,’ in which extraction and regeneration are brought into balance. ˧ Building on a synthesis of macrohistory (Karatani, Whitaker, Turchin), relational sociology (Fiske), critical realism (Bhaskar), and integral theory (Wilber), the essay introduces key P2P concepts: stigmergy as a third coordination mechanism alongside markets and command; trialectical strategies as an alternative to dialectical class struggle; the ‘pulsing of the commons’ as a macrohistorical pattern; and the ‘archipelago of regenerative projects’ as a strategic model for translocal, commons-based coordination. The essay concludes by positioning AI as a potential enabler to make the non-human more visible in participatory decision-making, and by formulating a ‘Third Narrative’ that links entropic constraints with extropic evolution."

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