...Francesco Brancaccio This essay will show what are some of the qualifying characteristics of the theoretical construction of the law of the common. It will be divided into two parts. In the first part, I will review some of the main structural modifications that affected modern law with the advent...

...Raquel Gutiérrez-Aguilar The article reflects on the possibilities and difficulties encountered by the heterogeneous and multiform wave of social struggles in Latin America during the past decade and its effort to produce a political horizon that focuses on the common reappropriation of wealth...

... at libcom.org/library/creating-common-wealth-cracking-capitalism-cross-reading-part-i ( accessed November 4, 2013 ). Hardt Michael Negri Antonio . 2009 . Commonwealth . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press . Holloway John . 1992 . “Crisis, Fetishism, and Class...

...Giso Amendola In the struggles against neoliberalism, it is difficult to reconcile the language of instituent practices and the language of revolution, the transformation of the present in its totality. This difficult link also raises the problem of law. The production of commons is interpreted...

...Jon Beasley-Murray 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Jon Beasley-Murray The Common Enemy: Tyrants and Pirates Written in 1950, Carl Schmitt’s foreword to The Nomos of the Earth ends with the statement...

...William Haver Throughout all of Michel Foucault’s work there is an uncompromising, albeit tacit, refusal to posit “society” as an object of knowledge and control. Rather, there emerges in various texts a thought of the common as the object of sense rather than of cognition. This essay attempts...

...James Martel In this essay, I engage with Jodi Dean’s idea from The Communist Horizon (2012) that “division is common; we must seize it.” I argue that this is a critical insight that helps us think both about the kinds of political subjectivity that we find in Marxist philosophy as well...

...Maria Rosaria Marella Cities are quintessentially human and collective products. All urban space is the product of social cooperation. Therefore not just the “public” space but the metropolis as a whole must be considered as a commons. This assumption is not neutral from a legal point of view...

...Francesco Brancaccio; Carlo Vercellone The South Atlantic Quarterly 118:4, October 2019 doi 10.1215/00382876-7825551 © 2019 Duke University Press Francesco Brancaccio and Carlo Vercellone Birth, Death, and Resurrection of the Issue of the Common: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective The common...

...Alioscia Castronovo Starting from ethnographic research on popular economies carried out in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, I aim to contribute to reflection on the common as a mode of production, analyzing the popular community frameworks, practices of self-management of work...

... developed this thesis in the nineteenth century, the practice of the common allows us to flesh out such a theory today. The eradication of property can be accomplished through an articulation of different commons in which a productive common, codirected by workers and users, would work in conjunction...

... the resource itself, which allows us to fully rethink the ownership of the firm according to the model of “the philosophy of the commons.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 118:4, October 2019 doi 10.1215/00382876-7825624 © 2019 Duke University Press Massimiliano Nicoli and Luca Paltrinieri Platform Cooperativism...

...Alfonso Giuliani; Carlo Vercellone The vitality of the new field of study on the commons crosses the entire field of social sciences, and it is analyzed from very different perspectives. On the one side, the Ostromian new Institutional economics uses the term commons as plural and seeks to give...

...Jonathan S. Parhusip Local labor laws in Taiwan push migrant workers to run away from contracted employment arrangements and become undocumented. This article examines the common forms of struggle pursued by runaway Indonesian migrant workers with a focus on the informal organizational structures...

... . Elliott Jane . 2013 . “Suffering Agency: Imagining Neoliberal Personhood in North America and Britain.” Social Text 115 , no. 2 : 83 – 101 . Federici Silvia . 2014 . “From Commoning to Debt: Financialization, Microcredit, and the Changing Architecture of Capital Accumulation...

...Miriam Tola This essay discusses Paolo Virno's anchoring of the common in the linguistic faculties of Homo sapiens . It explores how Virno's figure of the anthropos intersects the hegemonic model of Man that largely underwrites the Anthropocene concept. In particular, it suggests that Virno engages...

...Ugo Mattei This essay introduces the Italian commons social movement—a diverse coalition of scholars, jurists, politicians, and activists—central to the success of the 2011 water referendum. This essay attempts to provide the context for the struggles to protect commons goods in Italy, as well...

... Debt and Occupy Wall Street . 2012 . The Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual . New York : PM Press / Common Notions . Toyama Kentaro . 2011 . “ Lies, Hype, and Profit: The Truth about Microfinance .” Atlantic , January 28 . Toro Ibañez Graciela . 2010 . La pobreza, un gran...

... of the commons to achieve autonomy from capital, especially and initially in matters of social reproduction (food, health, care, housing, knowledge, and education). © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Barbagallo Camille Federici Silvia , eds. 2012 . “ ‘Care Work’ and the Commons...

...Tommaso Fattori When the economic and financial storm broke, the Italian government asked the collectivity to come together to defend capital and the international financial powers by satisfying their thirst for privatization. The government plan was to sell off the country’s common patrimony...