Capitalism and the Commons

Arvidsson, Adam

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“…The concept of a commons does not simply refer to a shared resource, but the relationship between a community, an ethos and a resource (Arvidsson, 2019). The latter hints at a series of governance challenges that are likely to prevail in an affective commons.…”

Section: Challenges For Practice: Management and Governance Of An Affmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tensions between the social production of affective atmospheres and their commodification and private capture explain, in our assessment, much of the ambivalence towards Coworking described in the literature to date. However, just as recent work has reconsidered the relationship between commons, crises and social and technological innovation (Arvidsson, 2019), resolving these tensions could spur fruitful directions for innovation.…”

Section: A Third Wave Of Commons Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The affective commons of Coworking

Waters-Lynch

Duff

2019

Human Relations

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What kind of common project is Coworking? Coworking was first presented as a novel model for organising autonomous, authentic and creative labour amid a community of workers who share these progressive aspirations. That this promise has not always been realised in practice has provoked a strong sense of ambivalence among many Coworkers. This article offers a critical assessment of this ambivalence, which we approach by way of a novel theoretical category, an affective commons. Such a commons describes the atmospheric product of the immaterial labour of Coworkers, including the ‘commoning’ processes by which the community endorsed in accounts of the appeal of Coworking may manifest. In this respect, ambivalence about Coworking may be regarded as an effect of conflicts that arise in the shared work of commoning, particularly conflict over the capture and commodification of pooled resources, and fair acknowledgement of the contributions labouring bodies make to their circulation and reproduction. We argue that this ambivalence emerges from Coworking arrangements themselves, rather than the broader conditions of precarity that characterise much nonstandard work. We close with a brief discussion of the practical implications of our analysis for ongoing efforts to address this ambivalence and sustain the mutualism of Coworking.

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Section: Challenges For Practice: Management and Governance Of An Affmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Third Wave Of Commons Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The affective commons of Coworking

Waters-Lynch

Duff

2019

Human Relations

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“…18 The Anthropocene and planetary politics allow us to rethink some of the developments when the planet is considered in its entirety. 19 The systemstheory-cum-English school allows us to re-think the reconfiguration of boundaries from territorial to functional differentiation and hence traces the reconfiguration of spaces. 20 We share the conviction that these approaches provide invaluable insights for political thought in the twenty-first century.…”

Section: The Spatial Metaphors We Live Bymentioning

confidence: 99%

Between concepts and thought: digital technologies and temporal relationality

Kessler

Lenglet

2020

International Relations

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This article advances the argument that the acceleration of practices introduced by digital technologies also impact key concepts of social theory. Digital technologies not only give rise to new concepts, but they also reconfigure our entire socio-political conceptual vocabulary. In particular, this acceleration reorganises the relationship between the spatial and temporal dimensions of political concepts. As a consequence, our spatially defined understanding of authority, hierarchy or relation underestimates the repercussions of shifting temporalities. This article pursues this shift from space to time and outlines how temporal relationality is gradually impacting the representations and images we live by.

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“…By a similar token, Jones and Murtola (2012), whose work was earlier presented, astutely observe that profit-seeking enterprises have made the commons a central element of their business models. IT corporations, for instance, have become very skillful in capturing the digital commons by exploiting the value created via open source programmers (mostly without pay) (Arvidsson 2020). IBM and Amazon offer a case in point of how corporations make productive use of the digital commons (in the form of open source software) by making a profit from it (Hanlon 2014).…”

Section: Iii: Anti-capitalist What Else?mentioning

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Review of Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing

Dey

2020

J Bus Ethics

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Everybody nowadays should take an interest in notions of the 'commons' and 'commoning'. Although hardly used in colloquial talk any more, these terms are of utmost significance in pointing toward the availability of resources for collective production and shared consumption, and of practices and spaces of being and producing in common that provide the freedom to redefine the realm of economic practice by our own rules. It is hence reassuring to observe a steady swell of academic interest in the commons and commoning as vehicles for challenging traditional understandings of property and labor (Gibson-Graham 2006), while offering a 'politics of possibility' that permits realigning the subject matter with the broader interests of community (Amin and Howell 2016). Guy Standing, a Professorial Research Associate at the London University who has written extensively about migration, development economics, and labor markets, is probably best known for his two books The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011) and Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen (2017). While the two books are united by an interest in how work is becoming increasingly more unstable and insecure, and how increasing levels of poverty and inequality can be overcome, his newest book Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (published 2019 by Pelican Books), blends seamlessly into his previous oeuvre by exploring the potential of the commons and commoning as an antidote against the erosion of society. Specifically, the book takes a close look at the Magna Carta, and especially at the lesser known Charter of the Forest, to recover a historical sensitivity for how citizens

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Capitalism and the Commons

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

The affective commons of Coworking

The affective commons of Coworking

Between concepts and thought: digital technologies and temporal relationality

Review of Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing

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