The Cost of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Approving It for Capitalism

The corruption of the commons is caused by capitalism and a logic of colonialism, says Cori. In order to have a commons that's sustained you need people who will get to do the work of commoning or governing deciding on the rules by which that commons is maintained. The idea of like terra newliss where there's nothing there so let's just go in and grab it might be a way of addressing this problem but what we actually need is mechanisms by which we can decide what we want.