[P2P-F] new essay: What is the future of the commons movement? What are some of the pathways for a commons transition.

Tue May 19 13:54:28 CEST 2020

> a preprint of the book chapter can be seen here.
https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/

I didn't find anything downloadable/readable there.

george

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:55 AM Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> via jose ramos
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> What is the future of the commons movement? What are some of the pathways
> for a commons transition. How do we formulate an alternative political
> economy and livelihoods out of the ashes of neoliberalism and the
> covid-19 pandemic? And how do we understand all of this in the broader
> planetary context of the anthropocene? Our book chapter "Awakening to an
> Ecology of the Commons" (Michel Bauwens and Jose Ramos) attempts to provide
> answers to the following questions.
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> As any nuanced thinker will tell you, there are no easy answers in this
> world. However given the massive upheavals we are experiencing, it is
> incumbent on us to push forward through sense-making and connecting with
> our values and our visions. in this book chapter we offer three scenarios
> for the futures of the commons movement and social change. We argue that
> we need to build a meta language for commoning - a "protocol commons". This
> will allow us to weave a broader movement across many different actors
> that are working for commons in their own way (even when they are not
> calling it commons or commoning). We call this an "ecology of the
> commons".
>
> The book chapter is part of an ambitious anthology by Anne Grear and
> David Bollier titled "The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst
> Capitalist Ruins"  (Punctum Books, Santa Barbara)
>
> It is an ambitious anthology that brings together contributions from Sam
> Adelman, David Bollier, Primavera De Filippi, Vito De Lucia, Richard Falk,
> Anna Grear, Paul B. Hartzog, Andreas Karitzis, Xavier Labayssiere, and Maywa
> Montenegro de Wit, as well as including our work. In their own words:
>
> "It is clear that the multiple, entangled crises produced by neoliberal
> capitalism cannot be resolved by existing political and legal institutions,
> which are imploding under the weight of their own contradictions. Present
> and future needs can be met by systems that go beyond the market and state.
> With experiments and struggle, a growing pluriverse of commoners from
> Europe and the US to the Global South and cyberspace are demonstrating some
> fundamentally new ways of thinking, being and acting.... We learn about
> seed-sharing in agriculture, blockchain technologies for networked
> collaboration, cosmolocal peer production of houses and vehicles,
> creative hacks on law, and new ways of thinking and enacting a rich,
> collaborative future. This surge of creativity is propelled by the social
> practices of commoning new modes of life for creating and sharing wealth in
> fair-minded, ecologically respectful ways."
>
> the anthology will be available in September 2020 through Punctum Books. a
> preprint of the book chapter can be seen here.
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> https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/
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> Dr. José M. Ramos
> pub: https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos
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> web: http://actionforesight.net
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