<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">> <span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">a preprint of the book chapter can be seen</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">here. </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span><a href="https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/" target="_blank">https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/</a><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I didn't find anything downloadable/readable there.</div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>g<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">eorge</span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:55 AM Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br>via jose ramos<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">===========================</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div><span>What is the future of <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">t</span>he <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">c</span>ommons movement</span><span class="gmail_default"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">? W</font>hat<font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> are some of the pathways for a </font>commons<font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> transition. H</font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">ow do we formulate</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> an alternative</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> political economy</span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> and livelihoods out of the ashes of neoliberalism</font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> and the covid-19 pandemic? </span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"></font></span>And how do we understand <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">all of</span> this in <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">the</span> br<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">oader</span> planetary context of the anthropocene<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">? O</span>ur book <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">chapter </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">"</span>Awakening to an Ecology of the Commons<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">" (</span>Michel Bauwens and Jose Ramos<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">) attempts to <span>provide answers to the following</span><span> questions. </span></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span>As any nuanced thinker will tell you, there are no easy answers in this world. H<span>owever given the massive upheavals</span><span> we are experiencing, <span>it is incumbent on us to</span><span> push forward through sense-making</span><span> and connecting with</span><span> our values and our visions. <span>in this book chapter we offer three scenarios for the futures of the commons movement</span><span> and social change. W<span>e argue that</span><span> we need to build</span><span> a meta language for commoning - a "protocol commons". T<span>his will allow us to</span><span> weave a broader movement</span><span> across many different actors</span><span> that are working for c</span><span>ommons in their own way (even when they are<span> not calling it</span><span> commons or commoning). We call this an "ecology of the commons". </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span><span><span>T<span>he book chapter is part of</span><span> an ambitious anthology by Anne Grear and David Bollier <span>titled</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">"</span>The Great Awakening: New Modes of Life amidst Capitalist Ruins<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">" </span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">(</span>Punctum Books, Santa Barbara<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">) </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I</span>t is an ambitious <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">a</span>nthology that brings together contributions from<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> </span>Sam Adelman, David Bollier, Primavera De Filippi, Vito De Lucia, Richard Falk, Anna Grear, Paul B. Hartzog, Andreas Karitzis, Xavier Labayssiere, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">and </span>Maywa Montenegro de Wit<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">, as well as including our work. In their own words: </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">"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.... </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">We learn about seed-sharing in agriculture, blockchain technologies for networked collaboration, </span>cosmolocal<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> </span>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.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">" </span></div><div></div><br><div></div><span>the <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">a</span>nthology will be available in</span><span> September</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> 2020 through Punctum Books. <span>a preprint of the book chapter can be seen</span><span> here. </span></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span><a href="https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/" target="_blank">https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/</a> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">  </span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>**********************<br>Dr. José M. Ramos<br>pub: <a href="https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos" target="_blank">https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos</a><br>linkedin: <a href="http://linkd.in/19h1V5h" target="_blank">http://linkd.in/19h1V5h</a><br>web: <a href="http://actionforesight.net" target="_blank">http://actionforesight.net</a><br>tel: +(61)431-541-068<br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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