New ephemera issue: The commons and their im/possibilities – Volume 12, number 4
This issue addresses the question of the (im)possibilities of the commons within contemporary capitalism. It considers the commons within a variety of manifestations, including the Open Software movement, Open Education movement, housing, academia, the arts and art education. The contributions of this issue discuss specific concerns and tensions around capitalist exploitation and commodification of practices of political and creative organizing that go beyond commodification and logics of strategic exchange. A central question in the contributions within this issue is how capital moves to absorb and enclose current commons, social relations and public goods, or otherwise put, how the commons evolve in relation to certain contradictions within their own status as non-capital.
Editors: Casper Hoedemaekers, Bernadette Loacker and Michael Pederson
Contents
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| editorial | |
| Casper Hoedemækers, Bernadette Loacker and Michael Pedersen | The commons and their im/possibilities |
articles | |
Nathaniel Tkacz | From open |
| Mike Neary and Joss Winn | Open |
| Stuart Hodkinson | The return of the housing question |
| notes | |
| Werner Bonefeld | From humanity to nationality to bestiality: A polemic on alternatives without conclusion |
| Matt Rodda | Protest without return; or, pedagogy with a gag |
| Valerie Fournier and Warren Smith | Making choice, taking risk: On the coming out of Critical Management Studies |
| reviews | |
| Charles Barthold | Between the event and democratic materialism |
| Emma Dowling | Tales of ‘Much of a muchness’: Adventures in the land of social capital |
| Steen Nepper Larsen | Is capitalism dying out? |