Common Sense and Commoning Capacities

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Based on todays session, it might be interesting to compile and consider many different definitions of ‘common sense’, how we feel about them, our own thoughts, what might be interesting about them, how they may or may not be applicable in certain situations, etc.

Just to offer up some suggestions:

‘Ideological common sense’ (Bourdieu) → concerned with how what we take as ‘obvious’ is unnatural, ingrained in power dynamics

‘Foundational’ common sense? → more so concerned with perception and rationality, etc. 2+2=4

‘Commoning sense’ → concerned with how to ‘sense things in common’. Not sure if makes sense to make a distinction here, but also the the ‘basic capacities for commoning’ (or something like this), what I was discussing in my presentation.

‘What count as common’ → Raincare, common sense as our ‘sense’ or idea as ‘what counts as common’ or what is ‘the common good’; perhaps related to ideological

Just some quick, rough suggestions.

Also, just opening up the forum to consider the concept more generally, if there are other ways folks think it might be interesting to look into. I’m just digging into it, but it seems like its a very rich concept in different forms.

Here also are the slides from todays presentation, if anyone would like to take a look

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How to create a regenerative knowledge commons is something I’m exploring right now. It’s very interesting to discuss how get more people sharing knowledge.

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There’s a famous quote from George Orwell to the effect that 2+2=4 can also be the kind of ideological common sense described by Bourdieu.
I believe the idea is that, if you can get people to say 2+2=5, you can get them to say anything. Which can be an end in itself, or a means to other ends.