Altered States Of Conversation E143| What Are We Accelerating Towards? | Benjamin Studebaker, Michel Bauwens, O.G. Rose, Tim Adalin
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Apr 13, 2026 
Featuring O.G. Rose, philosopher exploring social coordination; Michel Bauwens, commons theorist advocating cosmolocal peer production; and Benjamin Studebaker, political theorist on geopolitics and militarized reshoring. They discuss U.S.-China strategy, Europe's rearmament and social costs. They explore modes of exchange, cybernetic coordination, peer production, institutional incompleteness, and the search for new social coordination amid accelerating change.
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Modes Of Exchange Point To A New Cosmolocal Era
- Kojin Karatani's modes of exchange map civilisational shifts from kinship to market to a new digitally networked mode.
- Michel Bauwens argues we're entering a cosmolocal, peer-production era where digital commons enable new coordination engines.
Cybernetics Drove 20th Century Systemic Success
- Cybernetic coordination explains capitalist success and China's systemic advantage: corporations optimized cybernetics internally while China applies it societally.
- Bauwens sees this as central to how information-era planning reshaped global power.
Invest In Social Cybernetics And Dialogue Skills
- Build social cybernetics focused on hermeneutical pluralism so communities can coordinate across differing worldviews.
- O.G. Rose urges accelerating people's skill in articulate dialogue and mutual understanding to avoid suboptimal Nash equilibria.
