ABSTRACT

The article reports on a philosophical inquiry of the social organisation of spirit in the village Bywater. The main conceptual claim is that the case shows us spirit as a recursive common. Spirit is both an effect of and a condition for social organisation. We contribute to rethinking the relation between resource and practice in commons and in alternative organisation. Methodologically, the inquiry is grounded in a cultural mapping of the cultural in/tangibles producing the spirit of the community. We read these cultural in/tangibles through a philosophical lens and re-enter them as elements of spirit. We conclude that spirit/commoning acts as organising of, for, and with community needs while remaining undecidably explicit and implicit, formal and informal. By conceptualising spirit as resource and commons, this paper contributes to the study of alternative organisation.

摘要

这篇文章报道了对拜特沃特村庄精神社会组织的哲学研究。主要的概念主张是，该案例向我们展示了作为递归共性的精神。精神既是影响又是条件对于社会组织。我们致力于重新思考公共场所和替代组织中资源与实践之间的关系。从方法上讲，探究基于产生社区精神的文化无形/有形物质的文化映射。我们通过哲学的角度来阅读这些文化上的/有形的东西，并将它们重新作为精神的要素。我们得出的结论是，精神/共通行为是组织，满足和满足社区需求的行为，同时保持了不确定的显性和隐性，正式和非正式的状态。通过将精神概念化为资源和公地，本文为替代组织的研究做出了贡献。