The commons, often reductively thought of as 'public goods', have long been central to material struggles and utopian imaginaries of collective ownership and wellbeing. so it is today, undergirded by a general anxiety that the natural, social and political commons are at risk from the encroachments of capitalist expansion, hyper-consumption, and corporist politics. The history and present fate of the commons are reduced to a tragedy: critics worry about the disappearance or actually contested nature of things once held in common, grasping for a new counter-narrative. Yet, what exactly is meant by the commons today, how they are formed and for whom, if in the undergrowth of old understandings and practices new forms of 'commoning' are arising, and what a new language with traction should look like, reamin largely unanswered questions.This sympsosium addressed these questions by following developments across three historically symbolic 'passage points' of the commons: 1) the ownership, availability and condition of land and nature; 2) the technologies and infrastructures of collective provisioning; and 3) the structuring of publics and their rights
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