Ruangrupa Introduces the Spirit of ‘Lumbung’ to International Art
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
This 15th edition of documenta ("documenta 15") confirms that commoning is surging as a way to re-imagine the political economy of art-making.
Tag: commoning
Alanna Irving on Distributed Leadership and Infrastructures for Commoning
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
You can consider Open Collective an infrastructure for commoning -- a backend system that makes it easier and more normal for people to manage money fairly, collectively, and with open accountability.
The Significance of Emancipated Neighborhoods for the Project of Direct Democracy
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
When the inhabitants of a certain neighborhood or complex of buildings manage to institute a radically different mode of collective co-existance, then the self-managed units, of which Castoriadis speaks, begin to emerge.
Keeping the world alive and healthy: The radical realism of the “forces of reproduction” – An interview with Stefania Barca
By Ethemcan Turhan, Stefania Barca, Undisciplined Environments
While capitalism has taught us to identify the first with money-making and the second with life-making – a necessary but nevertheless subordinated, dependent and qualitatively inferior activity – climate justice movements are claiming the progressive, i.e. egalitarian, emancipatory, and wealth-producing agency of reproductive forces.
Bringing Degrowth and Commoning to Fashion
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Through the organization Fashion Act Now, a growing band of dissident fashionistas want to make the clothing industry more ecologically responsible, relocalized, and culturally in sync with this moment in history, especially with respect to climate change, economic justice, and decolonialization.
Wanted for planetary health: a degrowth transformation rooted in caring commoning practices
By Winne van Woerden, Degrowth.de
In caring commons, autonomy and self-reliance are approached collectively. Human health is understood holistically, with a focus on promoting community solidarity in caring endeavors.
Commoning and Changemaking
By David Bollier, Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Please accept the invitation made by The Commoner’s Catalog and apply your talents and imagination to the challenges of commoning. We have much to learn from each other and a new world to build!
A small farm future – the case for common property
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
I believe the key aspect of commoning as doing good things together in the fact that both take their place within a larger collective politics of creating resilient and renewable local societies where people are autonomous and self-possessed actors within larger cooperative networks.
Shaun Chamberlin on David Fleming’s Vision of Post-Capitalist Life
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
Shaun Chamberlin, a British author and activist, has long been involved with the Transition movement; with climate change activism; and with a titanic effort to popularize the work of his former mentor, David Fleming.
Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
I believe commoning remains one of the more promising avenues that we have for addressing the profound structural challenges of contemporary politics, economics, and culture.
Open Source Seeds and Commoning Mushrooms: The Iriaiken Philosophy
By David Bollier, Free, Fair, and Alive
The appropriation of seeds raises a profound challenge to farmers and, really, everyone, because we all have to eat.
Beating the Bounds: Inside the Struggle to Make Open Source Seed
By Maywa Montenegro de Wit, David Bollier blog
Commoners in medieval Europe variously employed boundary beating as physical mapping of space, territorial defense, and performative acts of community, collective memory, and shared responsibility.