Free, Fair, and Alive : The Insurgent Power of the Commons.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (450 pages)
Front Cover -- Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Commons as a Transformative Perspective -- 1. Commons and Commoning -- 2. The OntoShift to the Commons -- 3. Language and the Creation of Commons -- Part II: The Triad of Commoning -- 4. The Social Life of Commoning -- 5. Peer Governance Through Commoning -- 6. Provisioning Through Commons -- Part III: Growing the Commonsverse -- 7. Rethinking Property -- 8. Relationalize Property -- 9. State Power and Commoning -- 10. Take Commoning to Scale -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Notes on the Methodology Used for Identifying Patterns of Commoning -- Appendix B: Visual Grammar for the Pattern Illustrations -- Appendix C: Commons and Commoning Tools Mentioned in This Book -- Appendix D: Elinor Ostrom's Eight Design Principles for Successful Commons and Commoning Tools -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors -- A Note About the Publisher -- A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading.
Free, Fair, and Alive is a penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for "commoning" -- free, self-organizing systems ranging from alternative currencies to open-source everything. It presents a bold and compelling alternative to the dead-end, predatory market-state system.