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Category Archives: Visions of the future

Libertarian Municipalism and Transferics

23 May, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Libertarian municipalism is an evolution of Murray Bookchin’s left-libertarian theory, a social theory which is not only the end, but also the means to achieve it.  While the basic idea […]

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Natural Economic Theory, VIAAC Theory, Visions of the future

Transhumanism and the Broken Promise of Cosmic Communism

29 March, 2015by R. Salisbury 16 Comments

In The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber described much of the cultural phenomena that happened in the 70s and following decades as the result of a broken promise of a […]

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Progress: A Fair Treatment, Visions of the future

Post-Scarcity Anarchism: A Collaborative Periodical

17 March, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

You may be interested in a new, hopefully recurring, publication, creatively titled “Post-Scarcity Anarchism”.  I edited, wrote an article and two features for this volume, and I think it turned […]

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Visions of the future

The capability of renewables and the importance of decentralization

8 October, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

This entry is based on the study, “Cost-minimized combinations of wind, solar, and electrochemical storage, powering the grid up to 99.9% of the time“. Description To summarize, it is a […]

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Examples, Progress: A Fair Treatment, VIAAC Theory, Visions of the future

Maximization is a Lofty Goal

4 September, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Maximization is characteristic of the goals in capitalist economics.  Corporations are legally required to maximize profit, and according to the most extreme views of market economics, humans are supposed to […]

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Dialectic, Visions of the future

Specializations Revisited

1 September, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

The networking of intentional communities, once established, would allow a specialization scheme for greater efficiency and robustness of the network.  Due to the four-color theorem we know that 4 or […]

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Dialectic, Mathematical, Progress: A Fair Treatment, VIAAC Theory, Visions of the future

An overview of natural economics and its reasoning.

27 August, 2013by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

A “computational” or “natural” economy is a framework for a new economic system which attempts to reconcile the environmental, physical, and social needs of humanity with the opposing needs of […]

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Dialectic, Visions of the future

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