by Tom Wallace
Today’s societies harbour three flavours of utopia. For the current Western consumer capitalism I use the name ‘Privatopia’. This in turn promises a bright technological future - Cornucopia. For an alternative ecological future - I use Ecotopia.The book looks at the commons and considers three aspects - there’s common goods, there are acts of ‘commoning’ - the ‘gift economy’ - and there’s how we bring these two things together. Bringing the gift economy together with all that...