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SG – What We Have in Common. A Philosophy of ‘Commonism’
The economic, ecological and health crises of recent decades have made it clear that neoliberal capitalism is a fundamentally unsustainable system.
About What We Have in Common. A Philosophy of ‘Commonism’
For an alternative Thijs Lijster looks at the ‘commons’, a concept that has received a lot of attention in recent years in political philosophy, economics and ecological thought. Commons refer to goods or resources that are not owned by anyone but shared. He will argue that commons, both in their historical and contemporary manifestations, not only functions as an alternative to the classical distinction between the public and the private, but that they also presuppose an alternative view of humanity and our relationship to the world, one that could offer us a way out of the cascade of crises caused by neoliberalism.
About lecture series Three Key Concepts - Recycling, Earth, Commons
Do the ecological crises force us to tell alternative views on our place and role on this planet and our doing on it and understanding of it? The right story? The whole story? The true story? Three talks about key-concepts in our Wageningen disciplines. Philosophical-Ecological narratives about the ‘things’ we care about at WUR.
About Thijs Lijster
Thijs Lijster is assistant professor in the philosophy of art and culture at the University of Groningen. He studied philosophy in Groningen and New York, and received his PhD at the University of Groningen in 2012. He worked at the universities of Amsterdam and Antwerp. His publications include Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism (2017) and the edited volumes Spaces for Criticism. Shifts in Contemporary Art Discourses (2015) and The Future of the New. Artistic Innovation in Times of Social Acceleration (2018) and The Rise of the Common City (2022). He also published numerous essays and essay collections in Dutch, among which De grote vlucht inwaarts [The great leap inward] (2016), Kijken, proeven, denken [Seeing, tasting, thinking] (2019), Verenigt U! [Unite!] (2019) and Wat we gemeen hebben [What we have in common] (2022). He received several prizes for his essays: the ABG/VN Essay prize in 2009, the Dutch/Flemish Prize for Young Art Critics in 2010, and the Essay Prize of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL) in 2018.
Photo: Harry Cock.