ABSTRACT
The question of the commons is at the heart of current discussions about
democracy.1 In some of their recent texts, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
define the commons as something which is not discovered but produced:
We call ‘biopolitical production’ the current dominant model to underline
the fact that it involves not only a material production in straight economic
terms, but also it affects and contributes to produce all other aspects of
social life: i.e. economic, cultural and political. This biopolitical production
and the increased commons that it creates, support the possibility of
democracy today.
