Uncommon Commons — Notes on Echoecologies
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A pocketbook published in relation to the BaseCamp Library 2026 selection, collecting thoughts on the commons and its uncommon forms by 28 artists and writers.
Uncommon Commons draws inspiration from the idea that a commons is not a thing but a practice — what Peter Linebaugh calls commoning, a verb rather than a noun. Against the worn-out story of the tragedy of the commons, Elinor Ostrom showed that people have long written their own rules for tending what they hold together. Following this, we view books as commons: held collectively, lent and annotated, passed on, and never quite owned.
The works presented here are excerpts and quotes from books within the BaseCamp Library, offering forms of sharing that exceed property and market, making visible the rules, refusals, and repairs through which something is kept in common. These are notes on commonologies: on care and maintenance as infrastructure, on archives and libraries that circulate rather than accumulate, on land, water, and knowledge held against enclosure. They carry concepts for stewardship, for reuse, for the reclaiming of ground.
The collection features artistic approaches that invite new ways of participating, functioning as both conversation starters and springboards to dive deeper into specific practices and situations. As commons are made and unmade locally while their pressures are shared globally, this collection assembles diverse perspectives on what is held in common and how. It encourages reading as a common act and imagining new arrangements for collective futures.
Editor: Beatrice Dinoia, Justine Stella Knuchel, Jan Steinbach
Designer: Jan Steinbach
Contributor: Ivana Borovnjak, Hayahisa Tomiyasu, Pascal Gielen, Shortwave Collective, gideon-jamie, Jody Agus, Karlos Kalimax, Eline Vis, Manyi Chan 陳文怡, Brigitte Vasallo, Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell, Luc Jolivet, Lewis Hyde, Almendra Cremaschi, Yae Addae, Camille Jetta, Billie Nuchelmans, Anabel Marin, Karina Beumer, Maciej Landsberg, Patrick van Zwanenberg, Vanesa Lowenstein, Nicky Assmann, Sophie Dyer, Kim Dovey, Silvia Federici
2026
English, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Arabic
114 pages
Paperback
8.7 × 12.4 cm
ISBN 978-3-907251-32-4
© BaseCamp
© Inexistent Books
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