We're living through three revolutions at once: in production (AI), in reproduction (fertility) and in co-production (climate, i.e., the agency of the biosphere). Any order that ignores its conditions of production fails. That's my short version of the case for Bhumics.
How the word moved
In February 2025 these were the three revolutions the Pauper has to watch, each with a positive and a normative side. In March 2025 I turned them on the rules-based order: it's juridical, so it abdicates the conditions of production and co-production, and no nation state can account for all three forces. It can only be done at planetary scale.
In my words
"We are in the throes of three revolutions: in production (think AI), reproduction (think Fertility) and coproduction (think Climate Change)."
from Bhumics Week 3: “The Pauper”, 4 Feb 2025
"It can only be done at planetary scale, and that's why we need Bhumics."
from Bhumics Week 7: The RBIO Part 4, 3 Mar 2025
Related
- Inherited from Marx - I borrow the Marxist critique of the juridical superstructure.
- Related Rules-Based International Order - it's what fails to account for these revolutions.
- Related Bhumics - this is the reason I give for needing Bhumics.
Still open
Reproduction, fertility, drops out of my later writing almost entirely. I should either bring it back or admit why it went.