commons governance

Posted on July 13, 2026 by Nik

The God in the River Needs a Lawyer

On representation of the commons. I am the place in which something has occurred — Kathleen Raine There is a river in Quebec, called Mutehekau Shipu, that was granted legal personhood in 2022. Standing beside it,  Robert Macfarlane writes that he can’t help feeling a fundamental incommensurability between the discourse of “rights” and “standing” and Read More

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Nik

Wiring the Organism

Building the infrastructure that makes conscience legible I keep returning to Edgar Mitchell’s account of his return from the moon — looking back at Earth from beyond its sphere of influence, he found himself overwhelmed by an inner conviction as certain as any equation he’d ever solved: that this beautiful blue world is part of Read More