![]() ![]() To be sure, this is a daunting proposition and a long-term project. Today, I'd like to introduce the idea of the commons to you and suggest its enormous potential for re-imagining so many things – the capitalist political economy, state power, our social relations and hierarchies, our relations with the Earth, our inner lives. We desperately need to find a new North Star and a more stable, wholesome order. On the other hand, as we move more deeply into the danger zones of climate change, authoritarian nationalism, savage precarity and inequality, and institutional breakdown, we have little choice. On the one hand, few people want to talk about structural change and necessary alternatives lest it open a Pandora's Box of monsters and chaos. Existing institutions and categories of thought aren't working so well. It's fair to say that so many grand narratives of our time - about citizenship, freedom, property rights, economic growth, and theories of value – have been called into question these days. The dialogue provoked by this workshop is timely and necessary because so many of the certitudes of political economy and culture are slowly crumbling before our eyes. The Commonsverse as a Parallel Polis: Opportunities and Challenges The event was hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, the Heidelberg Law Department at the University of Würzburg, and The New Institute (Hamburg, Germany).Ī video version of the talk (with my slides, two formal responses, and audience Q&A) can be found here: My talk begins at the 5:32 timecode. Below are slightly edited remarks that I delivered at a a workshop, "Beyond Liberalism: Commons, Constitutionalism and the Common Good," in Berlin, Germany, on May 31, 2023.
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