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It is not goods or objects that are at the center of today's commons debate, but the relationships of the participants to each other and to the world. "You must not imagine the commons world like a land of milk and honey, but like a picnic to which everyone contributes something," she told the taz in 2019.
The world of commons was also a submerged one for her, in which she moved like an archaeologist. Communal working, sharing and living were practiced by humanity since its emergence, but money, property and individualization in capitalism have made us forget all that. Silke Helfrich was therefore convinced that we need a new language for the commons, even a "new ontology," a different way of being.
We acknowledge that what we are exploring is more than a 'mindset'. Indeed, it is more than a 'consciousness'. It is, in fact, a new understanding of being, the very nature of reality.
YOUTUBE NS5a3J9DPq4 Interview with Silke Helfrich, Commons Strategies Group
"We need to stop looking for definitions of the Commons as a notion, as a concept, because in fact it's not about a thing, about a concept, it's not about something separated from us. It's another way of being in the world, of thinking about the world and finding another way of reshaping and reconstructing it." Silke Helfrich of Commons Institute and the Commons Strategies Group was interviewed by members of Zemos98 during last November's European Commons Assembly in Brussels.
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YOUTUBE mxPy6YTbHMA Silke Helfrich, Free, Fair and Alive: The Power of the Commons for Societal Transformation, 2020
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YOUTUBE JLX5lp1jDXk #FightEveryCrisis #coronaverstehen Silke Helfrich: Commons statt Markt-Staat: Eine post-corona Sonate, 2021
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