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As a [metaphor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor), the tragedy of the commons should not be taken too literally. The "tragedy" is not in the word's conventional or theatric sense, nor a condemnation of the processes that lead to it. Similarly, Hardin's use of "commons" has frequently been misunderstood, leading him to later remark that he should have titled his work "The Tragedy of the Unregulated Commons".[[22]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-22)[[23]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHardin1998-23)
Tragedy of the Commons
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Plantation management—and the relations of domination that structured the plantation—was anchored in a view of Black people as commodities, as something-not-quite-human. And the conditions of bondage on the plantation defined the category of “unfreedom” against which white workers could be classified as “free.”
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
Logic(s) Magazine
Tragedy is in fact a small region of comedy space, which is twisted all the way through.
All Art Is Ecological
Timothy B. Morton
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