Pyramid and the Common

Social Reproduction, Value Praxis, and Transformation

AvMassimo de Angelis

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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How do we change the world? How do we break free from social arrangements that shape our everyday lives yet leave many of us exhausted, stressed, and diminished? These are systems that deepen inequality, fuel armed conflict, damage the environment, and increasingly threaten the conditions of life itself.In this book, Massimo De Angelis explores the system of social cooperation we live in and reproduce every day, capitalism. Rather than analysing it from a distance, De Angelis examines it from the perspective of how people actually live, work, and care for one another, showing how our lives are organised through interconnected domains of value that structure power, labour, and social relations.Crucially, De Angelis argues that change can emerge from within these conditions. By focusing on social reproduction, the everyday practices that sustain life, he identifies a space where collective organisation, struggle, and alternative ways of living can take shape. Drawing on political economy, systems theory, cybernetics, and commons theory, this book offers both a clear diagnosis of our present crisis and a grounded vision for transforming how we live together.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-17
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:In Common
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350541429

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Massimo De Angelis is Emeritus Professor at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding Editor of the web journal The Commoner (Thecommoner.org) and author of numerous articles on commons and their role in the transformation of capitalism. His books include The Beginning of History (2007) and Omnia Sunt Communia: On the Commons and the Transformation to Post Capitalism (2017).

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'In this ambitious and deeply necessary book, Massimo De Angelis shows that the struggle against capitalism cannot be understood apart from the struggle over social reproduction and the commons. By mapping the pyramid of command as a totalizing system and commoning as a transformative force rooted in the reproduction of life, he gives us a powerful political language for our times.'

Innehållsförteckning

List of figures Acknowledgments Part I The common as condition Introduction 1 Changing the common 2 Reproductions and the measures of things 3 Reproductions as social forces Part II The making of the common 4 Daily life, social change, and enactment 5 The subject 6 Subjectification and the subject-holon 7 Value praxis or the coupling of the subjects with their exteriority Appendix to chapter 7: Circuits of capital and the procommons 8 Domains of value praxis Part III The pyramid of capital and beyond9 The pyramid of capital 10 The level of Gaia: foundation and horizon 11 The level of the procommons 12 The meso-level 13 The meta-level 14 The mega-level 15 A brief history of capitalist command since post–second world war 16 The autopoiesis of the common: from affective capture to systemic recomposition Notes References Index