> 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 <michelsub2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > via jose ramos > > =========================== > > 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. > > 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. > > > https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-great-awakening-new-modes-of-life-amidst-capitalist-ruins/ > > > > > > > ********************** > Dr. José M. Ramos > pub: https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos > linkedin: http://linkd.in/19h1V5h > web: http://actionforesight.net > tel: +(61)431-541-068 > > > > > -- > P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> > - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net > > Discuss: > http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens > > Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > > Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net > Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net > > Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by > making a donation. Thank you for your support. > https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/donation > > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >
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