“naturali iure communia sunt omnia haec … terra.” – The Institutes of Justinian
If Justinian’s Institutes of the sixth century appeared to prescribe and lay down an equal sharing of the earth, today this appears as an ideal, not a reality. Historically innovation and discovery have often worked to unbalance human societies on earth and the power relations between them. In this talk I will consider the ways in which those historical forces continue to influence our actions and how far we need to take them into account when we imagine possibilities for transformation.
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