David Bollier
David Bollier is an American activist, scholar, and blogger who is focused on the commons as a new/old paradigm for re-imagining economics, politics, and culture. The commons is as old as the human race but newly discovered, too, as the Internet, open source software, alternative currencies, and platform co-operatives.
Bollier pursues his commons scholarship and activism as Director of the…
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
I believe the commons paradigm can help us develop a new social and cultural vision, and new strategies for practical change. Paradoxically enough, redirecting our attention away from conventional politics and policy may offer the most promising possibilities for developing a transformational vision.
Honoring Commons-based Circuits of Value
It is becoming clear that our path beyond the pandemic, climate change, social inequality and much else will require some serious social and political transformations. But to navigate a reliable path forward, we must learn how to protect forms of value that cannot be expressed through price or created through markets.
The Web of Meaning
By Jeremy Lent and Nicholas Joyce
Jeremy Lent | What I call animate intelligence, and Earth wisdom, is a very similar take on the same thing, which is this recognition that life itself has spent billions of years here on Earth, evolving ways of doing things and being healthy as part of bigger ecosystems, and showing incredible intelligence.
Staff and Advisors
KOSMOS WINTER 2018 > STAFF AND ADVISORS
Staff and Advisors
Founding Editor
NANCY B. ROOF
Editor
RHONDA FABIAN
Webmaster | Art Director
KAREN ANDERSEN
Business Manager
SUSAN INGERSOLL
Associate Editor
VICTORIA PRICE
Kosmos Associates Board of Directors
NANCY B. ROOF, Chair
TARA STUART
RHONDA FABIAN, Vice Chair, Treasurer
STEPHANIE SHORTER
JUDY WICKS
JERRY BABER
Editorial Circle, Winter 2018…
The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene
Rambunctious garden: Red plastic bags and a lone poppy turn the untended lot between two Berlin traffic lanes into a contemporary wasteland.
Key Concepts
The current ideology of dead matter, mechanical causality, and the exclusion of experience from descriptions of reality in ecology and economy are responsible for our failure to protect aliveness in our world.
The challenge of the…
Burns Weston
Retired from full-time teaching on The University of Iowa law faculty in May 1999, Professor Weston began his legal career in 1961 with the New York City law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1966, after two years as a Sterling Fellow and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Yale Law School, he joined The University of Iowa College of Law and since then has served as…
Transforming Institutions
A letter to you,
Twice a year I have the opportunity to connect with you and to
express my gratitude to those who have inspired and uplifted me on this
long journey toward planetary harmony and wholeness. Although I have not
met many of you in person, I think of you often, knowing we are
resonating to the same note. Many of you are designing and crafting
exciting projects and exploding…