ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a conversation with Ruth Catlow from the Furtherfield website, on citizenship, netizenship, and the increasingly mutually constituted digital and physical worlds. The negotiation of the commons takes place in two distinct realms that are increasingly reaching into and shaping one another: the long history of the landscape commons both in cities and in the countryside, and across digital networks. In this the discussants find the continued project of the enclosures, appropriating forms of collectively created use value and converting it, wherever possible, into exchange value. Resulting from the ‘Reading the Commons’ project, this conversation also forms the basis for Waterman and Catlow’s essay ‘Dining at a Distance.’
