The Interstitial Commons
The interstitial, according to Erik Olin Wright, constitutes a set of marginal practices within a dominant power structure that remain relatively autonomous from the governing logic of that system. From this location, “new forms of social relations that embody emancipatory ideals and that are created primarily through direct action of one sort or another rather than through the state” can take shape, prefiguring a society liberated from the law of value’s unequal calculus (Wright 2010, 324). This panel examines interstitial forms and relations ...