Omnia Sunt Communia
Subtitle: Everything in Common - The Commons and Radical Transformation
Publisher: Zed Books, Limited
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781783600625
Subjects: Economics; Capitalism
Description: In Omnia Sunt Communia, Massimo de Angelis offers a radical political economy, illuminating the steps necessary to arrive at a post-capitalist world. By conceptualizing the idea of commons not just as common goods but as a set of social systems, de Angelis shows their pervasive presence in everyday life, and he maps out a strategy for total social transformation. From the micro to the macro, de Angelis unveils the commons as fields of power relations-shared space, objects, and subjects-that explode the limits of daily life under capitalism. He exposes attempts to co-opt the commons, through the use of seemingly innocuous words such as "participation" and "governance," and he reveals the potential for radical transformation rooted in the social reproduction of our communities, life, work, and society as a whole.--