...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work...

...Imre Szeman; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article argues for the necessity of articulating and struggling for an energy common. An energy common is not intended to substitute for articulations of the common in general. Rather, the specific discussion of energy in relation to the common...

...Sean Grattan; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock Focusing on the way that ACT-UP actually achieved many of its goals while also creating a commons around belonging, protest, and disability, this article interrogates the displaced position of ACT-UP and AIDS organizing and protest in recent...

... of this nation. The author argues that the example of Standing Rock allows us to see the convergence and conflict among neoliberal biopolitics, white environmentalism, and the notion of the commons. Sophia A. McClennen A Biopolitics of the Commons Around the same time that the Lakota Nation set up the camp...

...Susan Hegeman; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock The concept of the commons is central to an argument that connects indigenous people and their struggles both to global politics and to radical reconceptualizations of the relationships among knowledges, resources, and human communities...

...Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article introduces the dossier “Is There a Place for the Commons?” by briefly explaining the concepts of the common (no s ) and the commons (with an s ) in terms of their philosophical, political, social, and historical...

...Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock These theses are meant not as the final word on the concept or praxis of the commons but as words inspiring readers to imagine alternatives to the status quo. They cover topics including social reproduction, the knowledge...

...Jennifer Ruth © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Work Cited Robbins Bruce . Review of Amanda Anderson, The Way We Argue Now . Criticism 48 . 2 ( 2007 ). Jennifer Ruth A Downwardly-Mobile Professor Reads Bruce Robbins’ Upward Mobility and the Common Good...

...Crystal Bartolovich; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock Different as they are, Fredric Jameson’s “universal army” and Bruno Latour’s “Theater of Negotiations” both implicitly address the failure of a sufficiently large self-organized “common force” (à la Leslie Marmon Silko) to arise and repair...

...Cesare Casarino; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article argues for a university that would be neither private nor public but common. After providing a definition of the common, this article proposes to counter the current and ongoing processes of privatization and corporatization...

...Peter Hitchcock; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article explores the continuities and schisms between the politics of the commons and communism. Broadly, it aims to challenge the assumption that commons discourse is a subsumption or overcoming of the communist idea. Instead it offers...

... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

...Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article examines the poetry of Danez Smith as a practice of commoning. It introduces the concept of the uncommons as a way of thinking about how African American literature, culture, and political practice develop egalitarian forms...

... by emphasizing what the poem holds in common with other discourses. I analyze the intersection between the lyric and four concepts borrowed from sociology, moral philosophy, political theory, and economics: the everyday, the multitude, capital, and person. Stressing the lyric’s compatibility rather than its...

... by owners but rather upon tenuous control over the commons and creativity of the multitude. Examining the concept of general intellect through a comparison of the readings of such writers as Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Paulo Virno, Nick Dyer-Witheford, and Greg de Peuter with Marx's theorization...

..., and how their work influenced, often in polemical response, biblical scholarship on early Christianity. In particular, this tradition of Christian communism has taken two forms, one concerned with communal living and “having all things in common” and the other with the revolutionary origins...

... activist women similarly on the lam include Marin Douglas in Joan Didion’s A Book of Common Prayer (1977). Alice Mellings in Doris Lessing’s The Good Terrorist (1977), Jenny Shimada in Susan Choi’s American Woman (2003), Anna Xenos (nom de guerre Dial) in Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self (2008), Reno...

...Mitchell Gauvin What do experiential poet Bruce Andrews and former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly have in common? On the surface, almost nothing—the former is a highly regarded, retired academic and the latter a disgraced TV host and conservative partisan. For a brief four minutes in 2006, however...

... the most common language between Italian and French), and we find ourselves together here in the space of the common. This language choice also enables Esposito to distance himself on principle from the word “community” (or communit and to keep at a distance the temptations of facile thought...

...," and that kind of agency, as his writing ceaselessly points out, is precisely the one rubbed- out of US history. In The Invention of the White Race, Ted wrote about what he called an "erased" sense of the "common." This took the form, in the early-modern age, of a collectivity...