David Bollier
David Bollier is an American activist, scholar, and blogger who is focused on the commons as a new/old paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. The commons is as old as the human race but newly discovered, too, as the Internet, open source software, alternative currencies, and platform co-operatives.
Bollier pursues his commons scholarship and activism as Director of the…
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The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
I believe the commons paradigm can help us develop a new social and cultural vision, and new strategies for practical change. Paradoxically enough, redirecting our attention away from conventional politics and policy may offer the most promising possibilities for developing a transformational vision.
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Global unity is our evolutionary destiny.
This is what we believe at Kosmos, and why we continue.
Call for Essays – Are You Sure? | Autumn Poetry, and More
To say that what is is, and what is not is not, is truth - Aristotle
Dear Reader,
We all cling to the truthfulness of our most firmly-held beliefs. Yet, we know that simply believing something does not make it true. Nor is consensus reality - the truth of the majority - by any means infallible. So where does truth reside? We might say there exists an independent reality 'out there' and that…
Honoring Commons-based Circuits of Value
It is becoming clear that our path beyond the pandemic, climate change, social inequality and much else will require some serious social and political transformations. But to navigate a reliable path forward, we must learn how to protect forms of value that cannot be expressed through price or created through markets.
Waters of Spirit
These abundant collective resources also include ancestral wisdom, feelings of gratitude, wonder and awe, appreciation for beauty, our powers of concentration and insight, our capacity to awaken, spiritual traditions, and personal practices such as prayer and meditation. I see our spiritual commons as a river of pure life-giving waters that each of us can draw from freely. In this edition of…
Kosmos Call for Essays and Other Works | Our Shared Spiritual Commons
Dear Reader,
Commons are shared resources on Earth (and in outer space) that no one ‘owns’. For most of our time as a species, these included land, water, forests and minerals. In recent centuries our commons have gradually been privatized, commoditized, and our access to them eroded. How the remaining commons are used and managed reflects their social significance. For example – a well-loved…
The Web of Meaning
By Jeremy Lent and Nicholas Joyce
Jeremy Lent | What I call animate intelligence, and Earth wisdom, is a very similar take on the same thing, which is this recognition that life itself has spent billions of years here on Earth, evolving ways of doing things and being healthy as part of bigger ecosystems, and showing incredible intelligence.