Utopian Potential between Swiss Peaks and Inherited Privileges

An essay by me, published by Essarter Éditions; an essay which is part of the collective book Outside The State: Our relationship to the land (FR and EN); an essay about Korporation Uri; an essay about collectively owned land in Central Switzerland; an essay about commoning as the basis for left-wing utopias, anti-capitalist communities, and radical concepts for promoting future equality; an essay about Korporationen as historical constructs, based on hereditary principles and exclusion; an essay about communities in flux and transforming collective ownership embedded in a capitalist context; an essay about resistance and struggles for collective ownership; an essay about commons as a holistic approach to landscape; an essay to look beyond the commons’ powerful utopian attraction to investigate to what extent we can or should learn from them. An essay about the complexity of commons.

collective publishing alongside Terraqué, Khalda El Jack, Sebastian Oviedo, Gaëtan Soerensen, Yann Haeberlin, Cloé Harent, editorial by Mathilde Vaveau, design by Lou Reichlin

with words by Pius Zgraggen, Rahel Wunderli and Daniel Schläppi

→ connected to the project The Landscape Assembles as We Gaze

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