Shared by Cory Jobb
How might commoning create conditions for different forms of care? Commoning alongside uncertain times asks something of us – an activation of relational, situated, and collective ethics, and attunement to living in reciprocity that opens toward caring with some futures in mind, but not others. To build a collective life upon interdependence and its many forms is to insist upon rejecting siloed and extractive ways of being with/in the world, turning instead toward new modes of care and kinship. Like care, commoning requires both a being and a doing, and like care, it attends to the uniquely and inequitably situated worlds of humans and more-than-human Others. To ground commoning – its dispositions and practices – in a commitment to caring with and across difference may make the conditions for convivial life possible. Yet we ought to resist romanticized visions of commoning as utopic, but rather consider its movements as tentative, contestable, collective dialogues with shared past(s)-present(s)-future(s) and the complexities of worlding-in-common.
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