Commoners are engaged in "world-making in a pluriverse".
Pluriverse names an understanding of the world in which countless groups of people create and re-create their own distinctive cultural realities, each of which constitutes a world.
A pluriverse is “a world in which many worlds fit,” as the Zapatistas say.
– Free, Fair and Alive
@neil More challenging than that, I’d say. Pluriverse names a way of living in the world in which otherworlds are seen with respect and compassion, as being grounded in material-historical circumstances, and where a weave of practice can be maintained across this very uneven development, of mutual aid. An active (and stewarded-policed) commons of the heart. Doesn’t mean everything anybody ever does is OK. But ‘unconditional positive regard’ is part of the machinery – Carl Rogers’ term.
@neil Designs for the Pluriverse, Arturo Escobar 2018>Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.Actually, I feel his design book is overly rhetorical. Maybe the earlier anthro stuff is better grounded.- https://anthrodendum.org/2018/08/27/designs-for-the-pluriverse-book-review/– https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-arturo-escobars-designs-pluriverse– http://patternsofcommoning.org/commons-in-the-pluriverse/
Designs for the Pluriverse — [book review] | anthro{dendum}