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have spread the idea that people must be helped, but only in market-friendly ways that do not upset fundamental power equations.

Three developments in the present century frame my study: the rise of Asia – in particular, China; the crisis of planetary sustainability; and the decline of transcendent and universalist ideals. To what extent are Chinese and Indian intellectuals and activists beginning to address these issues? I

Those that thrive will have figured out how to make governments manage “free” goods in ways that are both sustainable and equitable.

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

“Civil Disobedience without the constructive programme,” he wrote, “will be like a paralysed hand attempting to lift a spoon.”

To value something involves both identifying it and setting up rules through which it can be used by society, and the rules of commoning were fundamentally incompatible with capitalism.

Within 24/7 capitalism, a sociality outside of individual self-interest becomes inexorably depleted, and the interhuman basis of public space is made irrelevant to one’s fantasmatic digital insularity.