Engaging the Non-Flat World: Anarchism and the Promise of a Post-Capitalist Collaborative Commons |
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Authors: | Hannes Gerhardt |
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Affiliation: | Geosciences, University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper challenges the use of a geographically site-centred, flat ontology to justify contemporary anarchists’ predisposition to espouse exclusively prefigurative forms of action. By considering the anarchist, post-capitalist potential of a technologically enabled peer-to-peer (P2P) economy and Collaborative Commons movement, the case is made for the need to acknowledge and engage the higher-order (emergent) nexuses between state apparatuses and capitalist flows. Doing so, it is argued, makes envisioning the process of creating anarchist oriented, post-capitalist futures significantly more tangible and convincing. |
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Keywords: | anarchism prefiguration post-capitalism peer production technology scale |
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