Alex Kioupkiolis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Political Theory in the School of Political Sciences at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research focuses on contemporary social movements, radical democracy, the commons, and alternative conceptions of politics. He is the author of Freedom After the Critique of Foundations: Marx, Liberalism and Agonistic Autonomy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the principal investigator of the 2017-20 international research project Heteropolitics (ERC COG 2016), which enquires into civic self-organisation, the commons and municipalist processes in the European South.

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• Preface: The Long Run; Acknowledgements; 1. Commoning the Political, Politicising the Common: Community and the Political in J. L. Nancy, R. Esposito, G. Agamben, E. Laclau and C. Mouffe; 2. From the Commons to Another Politics of Egalitarian Autonomy: Common Pool Resources, Digital and Anticapitalist Commons, from E. Ostrom to Marxist Autonomism; 3. Common and Communism: Political Theories For Radical Change: from Hardt & Negri, Dardot & Laval to Badiou and Žižek; 4. Taking on Hegemony and the Political; 5. Reclaiming Post-Marxist Hegemony for the Commons; 6. Movements Post-Hegemony; 7. Common Democracy: Political Representation and Government as Commons; Endnotes; References.