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 Practice of Global Citizenship
Global unity is our evolutionary destiny.
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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.
Kosmos Winter Preview: ‘Global Citizen | Global Spirit’
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Every time I read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I am deeply moved by its essential, bold aspirations for humanity. This week we celebrate the 70th Anniversary of this milestone document, drafted by representatives from all regions of the world. The Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948. It set out, for the first…
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Kosmos Editorial Circle | Winter Edition
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The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene
Rambunctious garden: Red plastic bags and a lone poppy turn the untended lot between two Berlin traffic lanes into a contemporary wasteland.
Key Concepts
The current ideology of dead matter, mechanical causality, and the exclusion of experience from descriptions of reality in ecology and economy are responsible for our failure to protect aliveness in our world.
The challenge of the…
The Political Scientist Who Debunked Mainstream Economics
By David Bollier, via evonomics.com
The truth about the tragedy of the commons
“Picture a pasture open to all.”
For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage resources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. In a short but influential essay published in Science in 1968, ecologist Garrett Hardin gave the story a…