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“What happens when this commodity-machine —now conveniently locatedout of the view of most of us— breaksdown, as environments give out,markets crash, and/or sweat-shopworkers scattered across the globesomehow refuse to go on?”Hal Foster, 2003.

It's tempting to look for glimmers of sharing in distant history. Europe's empires tumbled like dominoes, save Denmark, which ceded rulership to the commons and is now one of the longest lasting monarchies in history (h/t Jeremiah Owyang). The French Surrealists valued collective meaning so much that they concocted the exquisite corpse, an art form still practiced 100 years later. Meanwhile, revisionists try to recast "mortgage" to mean "co-ownership" with a bank.