Commons governance proceeds through a fixed cycle of subjectivity, vision, and practice.
Evidence
The Circle of Commoning always flows in the same direction: subjectivities shape visions, which in turn affect practices, which reproduce subjectivities. The embodied nature of subjectivities means that they can only be shaped through practice, and visions can only develop via thinking subjects, leading to action. Therefore, while commoning styles may vary, the position of the three components of the cycle is fixed. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 40
Categorization
- XREF: A structural companion to my ADDENDUM pieces on infrastructure and sacrifice; the fixed-direction cycle recalls how ritual and built forms reproduce social order. — connects to: Becoming a commoner, visions, and social practices shape each other cyclically — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 38; Social practices drive ongoing formation of commoning subjects. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 94
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 40
Related
- Becoming a commoner, visions, and social practices shape each other cyclically (similarity 0.85)
- Commoning should be analysed through internal and external dynamics among subjectivities, visions and practices. (similarity 0.84)
- Social practices drive ongoing formation of commoning subjects. (similarity 0.83)
- Commoning practices vary with each commons’ unique context, aims, membership and culture. (similarity 0.82)
- Commoning simultaneously shapes and is shaped by its practitioners (similarity 0.81)
- Commoning practices simultaneously produce group relations, member subjectivities, and material culture. (similarity 0.80)
- Commoner subjectivities emerge historically through practice rather than being fixed identities. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Becoming a commoner, visions, and social practices shape each other cyclically
#corroborates(0.95) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 38 - Social practices drive ongoing formation of commoning subjects.
#expands(0.80) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 94