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SUMMARY:Postcapitalist practices of communing and a performative politics 
 of assemblage - Professor Katherine Gibson\, Institute for Culture and Soc
 iety\, University of Western Sydney
DTSTART:20140909T154500Z
DTEND:20140909T174500Z
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CONTACT:Ursa Mali
DESCRIPTION:We are currently witnessing both the destruction and formation
  of vastly different ways of constituting community\, as some commons are 
 enclosed or destroyed and others emerge and grow strong. As we face the ch
 allenge of acting 'as a species' within the multi-species community of lif
 e on this planet\, it is ever more evident that our lack of ability to 'co
 mmon' our atmosphere\, to care for and take responsibility for what presen
 tly exists as an open access\, unmanaged commons\, threatens our very exis
 tence. It is time to rethink the possibilities for collective action\, not
  only as a public with voice and vote\, but as a community-without-essence
  in which making and sharing a commons is a living\, participatory and nev
 er-settled commitment. Katherine Gibson argues for a reinvigorated languag
 e and politics of the commons\, one that can bring to visibility practices
  of everyday commoning that operate at multiple scales from the planetary 
 to the local.\n
LOCATION:Queen's Building Lecture Theatre\, Emmanuel College\, University 
 of Cambridge\, St Andrew's Street\, Cambridge
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