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Engaging the Non‐Flat World: Anarchism and the Promise of a Post‐Capitalist Collaborative Commons
Author(s) -
Gerhardt Hannes
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/anti.12554
Subject(s) - commons , futures contract , collective action , state (computer science) , action (physics) , ontology , sociology , order (exchange) , political science , political economy , environmental ethics , law and economics , business , epistemology , law , politics , computer science , philosophy , physics , finance , algorithm , quantum mechanics
This paper challenges the use of a geographically site‐centred, flat ontology to justify contemporary anarchists’ predisposition to espouse exclusively prefigurative forms of action. By considering the anarchist, post‐capitalist potential of a technologically enabled peer‐to‐peer (P2P) economy and Collaborative Commons movement, the case is made for the need to acknowledge and engage the higher‐order (emergent) nexuses between state apparatuses and capitalist flows. Doing so, it is argued, makes envisioning the process of creating anarchist oriented, post‐capitalist futures significantly more tangible and convincing.