New Materialist Insights for a Transindividual politics of Commons

Comentador: António Carvalho (CES) | Moderação:  ^{_{a confirmar}}

Resumo

Most commons´ theories take for granted the humanity of their Subject, the commoner. However, various scholars define commoning as the living labor fostering more-than-human relations. While such onto-epistemic lenses enlarge our understanding on commoning, modern paradigm persists through the inclusion of non-humans in a human path of becoming. Without a problematization of the Human, commoning, even in its more-than-human narrative, becomes yet another category instrumental to the human escape from the ruin of the Anthropocene. We elaborate on this contradiction of commons´ theory, by showing the Inhuman within commoning. Building on Simondon’s philosophy and on new materialist interpretations of his thought, we first show the immanence of the Inhuman pre-individual processuality within the commoner. Then, we expand the imagination over the transindividual agency of commoning as Inhuman and out of human onto-epistemic sight. Finally, we provide a framework to conceive commoning as a non-human invention of the new.

Article discussion: Inhuman Commoning: New Materialist Insights for a Transindividual politics of Commons (under review in “Theory, Culture and Society“)

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