THE COMMONIST HORIZON: FUTURES BEYOND CAPITALIST URBANIZATION
How do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life? One proposal for such a revolutionary alternative to capital’s organization of our lived environment has been the commons, wherein inhabitants communally control the multi-faceted conditions that make up their daily reproduction.
As a district behind the train station in the post-socialist city of Vilnius Lithuania faces gentrification, an autonomous community center there has sought to use commoning to resist. Taken up in the former state-socialist Eastern Block, commoning practices are embraced as a method for criticising the vicious wave of enclosures that began after the fall of state-socialism while at the same time not relying on the heavily stigmatized politics of state-socialism.
Emerging from a process of thinking together,The Commonist Horizon features five interventions by movement thinkers. Beginning in the post-Soviet city of Vilnius, the dialogical process stretches outward to two other formerly state-socialist countries, and then beyond. Speaking from their experiences in social movement formations, the authors take up the lived experience of building what might be called urban commons, offering insights on the conceptual and political potentials and limitations of this terminology and associated practices.
Editors: Mary N. Taylor and Noah Brehmer
Publishers: Common Notions and Lost Property
Published: December 2022
Format: Paperback
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page count: 224
Cover design by Josh MacPhee / Antumbra Design
Layout design and typesetting by Graciela “Chela”
Vasquez / Chelitas Design
Antumbra Design www.antumbradesign.org
How do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life? One proposal for such a revolutionary alternative to capital’s organization of our lived environment has been the commons, wherein inhabitants communally control the multi-faceted conditions that make up their daily reproduction.
As a district behind the train station in the post-socialist city of Vilnius Lithuania faces gentrification, an autonomous community center there has sought to use commoning to resist. Taken up in the former state-socialist Eastern Block, commoning practices are embraced as a method for criticising the vicious wave of enclosures that began after the fall of state-socialism while at the same time not relying on the heavily stigmatized politics of state-socialism.
Emerging from a process of thinking together,The Commonist Horizon features five interventions by movement thinkers. Beginning in the post-Soviet city of Vilnius, the dialogical process stretches outward to two other formerly state-socialist countries, and then beyond. Speaking from their experiences in social movement formations, the authors take up the lived experience of building what might be called urban commons, offering insights on the conceptual and political potentials and limitations of this terminology and associated practices.
Editors: Mary N. Taylor and Noah Brehmer
Publishers: Common Notions and Lost Property
Published: December 2022
Format: Paperback
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Page count: 224
Cover design by Josh MacPhee / Antumbra Design
Layout design and typesetting by Graciela “Chela”
Vasquez / Chelitas Design
Antumbra Design www.antumbradesign.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Lexicon: A Survey of Concepts
Reclaiming Care in the Urban Commons
Capital’s Social Fix: Divestment and Agency in the Post-Socialist Regenerate City
Naujininkai Commons Collective
Introduction
Noah Brehmer and Mary Taylor
Who Has “The Right to Common”? Decolonizing Commoning in East Europe
Ana Vilenica
From the Neoliberal City to Disaster Capitalism, From Commons to ‘Unenclosure’
Anthony Iles
Lexicon: A Survey of Concepts
Anthony Iles
A Movement to Transform Everything: Solidarity Economy in Eastern Europe
Ágnes Gagyi and Zsuzsanna Pósfai in conversation with Mary Taylor
Reclaiming Care in the Urban Commons
CareNotes Collective
Capital’s Social Fix: Divestment and Agency in the Post-Socialist Regenerate City
Naujininkai Commons CollectiveBibliography
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For international readers:
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For regional readers:
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