English Texts

  • Overcoming Exploitation and Externalisation

    Overcoming Exploitation and Externalisation argues that co-operative possibilities can emerge for the transformation of ourselves and our society. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of social and political theory with interests in the commons and alternatives to capitalism. Read more …

  • Society After Money. A Dialogue

    The Commons Institute has been a partner of the Project Society After Money, which now has released the book »Society After Money. A Dialogue«. Read more …

  • New Book on Commoning

    Perspectives on Commoning argues that the commons are not just resources external to us, but are a function or characterisation of what we do. Thus, we can talk of the act of commoning, positioning our behaviour beyond the domains of the private and the public, beyond the dichotomy of capitalism versus socialism. In the wake of […] Read more …

  • Commons and Political Theory

    13-15 September 2017, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece: first international workshop on the Commons and Political theory Read more …

  • Commons im politischen Raum

    Das mehrsprachige Video der Gruppe Remix the Commons diskutiert das Verhältnis von Commons und Politik – in Interviews und Workshop-Mitschnitten. Read more …

  • Commons and Degrowth

    [Bild: Sarah Meretz, Lizenz CC-BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/] Diesen Text gibt es auch auf deutsch. We, the authors of this text, Leslie Gauditz and Johannes Euler, are active in the Commons Institute which, among other things, promotes the creation of knowledge and the education on Commons. We are about 30 years old, with a middle-class background and […] Read more …

  • Commons and conviviality

    [Bild: Sarah Meretz, Lizenz CC-BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/] Diesen Text gibt es auch auf deutsch. Members of the Commons Institut (Germany) contribute to the debate around the Convivialist Manifesto and on Mother’s Day offer a new approach to reproduction. The authors have various backgrounds in activism, research and publishing. Their education includes a wide range of discliplines […] Read more …

  • European Commons Assembly

    Between 15 – 17 November, 2016, The European Commons Assembly gathered in Brussels a group of commoners coming from different parts of Europe who claimed for a pan-European movement for the commons. This video shows a summary of the energizing kick-off event: Some aspects of the commons Right to the City: This video reflects about […] Read more …