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The revaluation of value discloses that socially available free time—rather than socially necessary labor time—is the real measure of our wealth. Given the revaluation of value, we can strive to “reduce the necessary labor of society to a minimum,” instead of “reducing the necessary labor time in order to posit surplus labor” (as we do under capitalism).
This Life
Martin Hägglund
Legally, our notion of the corporation is very much a product of the European High Middle Ages. The legal idea of a corporation as a “fictive person” (persona ficta)—a person who, as Maitland, the great British legal historian, put it, “is immortal, who sues and is sued, who holds lands, has a seal of his own, who makes regulations for those natural persons of whom he is composed”166—was first established in canon law by Pope Innocent IV in 1250 ad, and one of the first kinds of entities it applied to were monasteries—as also to universities, churches, municipalities, and guilds.
We must develop the capacities that will enable us to recreate the world-system for the betterment of humanity and the Earth. Needed are world-centric ethical capacities and profoundly embodied situational awareness. Needed are collaborative and loving mindsets, able to deal with loss and tragedy, able to rebuild with resilience, able to innovate ceaselessly and with alacrity. __Education must promote growth into new levels of maturity.__ We need a new kind of grown-up.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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