The great awakening: new modes of life amidst capitalist ruins

Grear, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-1370 and Bollier, David, eds. 2020. The great awakening: new modes of life amidst capitalist ruins. Brooklyn, NY, USA: Punctum Books. 10.21983/P3.0285.1.00

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Abstract

As we enter a time of climate catastrophe, worsening inequality, and collapsing market/state systems, can human societies transcend the old, dysfunctional paradigms and build the world anew? There are many signs of hope. In The Great Awakening, twelve cutting-edge activists, scholars, and change-makers probe the deep roots of our current predicament while reflecting on the social DNA for a post-capitalist future. We learn about seed-sharing in agriculture, blockchain technologies for networked collaboration, cosmolocal peer production of houses and vehicles, creative hacks on law, and new ways of thinking and enacting a rich, collaborative future. This surge of creativity is propelled by the social practices of commoning new modes of life for creating and sharing wealth in fair-minded, ecologically respectful ways. It is clear that the multiple, entangled crises produced by neoliberal capitalism cannot be resolved by existing political and legal institutions, which are imploding under the weight of their own contradictions. Present and future needs can be met by systems that go beyond the market and state. With experiments and struggle, a growing pluriverse of commoners from Europe and the US to the Global South and cyberspace are demonstrating some fundamentally new ways of thinking, being and acting. This ontological shift of perspective is making new worlds possible.

Item Type:	Book
Book Type:	Edited Book
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Publisher:	Punctum Books
ISBN:	9781953035080
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	14 October 2020
Last Modified:	05 Jan 2024 08:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/135587

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