Primary attention - Diverse material in the real economy

Here we outline a basic threefold division of attention within living economy: three distinct fields of material provisionng of means of subsistence and wellbeing. These three categories map an extended ontology of ‘material’.

We do this in terms of families of patterns in provisioning and stewarding through wild nature, domestic economy and digital means. These are recognised, respectively, as responses to the Anthropocene, colonialism-capitalism, and 'The Golemic'.

The material in each of these divisions has a distinct form, with which we can have distinctly different kinds of relations. Which is to say, this 'structure map' below is an intrinsically *relational* mapping of the world of the real economy.

The three fields of attention are:

- Patterns of practice engaging (ie commoning) **wild nature** - Ocean, forest, air, water, climate, icecap, weather systems, currents, thermodynamic balances. *Natural means that have been taken for granted as unlimited (’the bounty of nature’), whose limits of stability and carrying capacity are manifestly being transgressed, and which need actively to be brought under commons stewardship.* Wild nature and the Anthropocene

- Patterns of practice engaging (ie commoning) **domesticated economy** *Humanly-cultivated and -fashioned constellations of means of subsistence and wellbeing: housing and land for housing, regional food, personal care of dependents, medical care, transport, energy, etc.* Each is a complex field, with its own material organisation, and practical relations and motivations, warranting stewarding as commons. Domesticated economy and capitalisms

- Patterns of practice engaging (ie commoning) **digital means** - Digital media, apps, platform infrastructure, devices and architectures/networks of devices, transport infrastructures, protocols, means of generating and holding data and crunching ‘wild’ scraped data (analytics, ‘Big’ corpora). Digital means and the Golemic

# Historical relationships with 'the materiall' Historically, all of these are large and problematic fields. The point is, some kind of ontology of material, and relationships with kinds of material, is arguably called for, to handle the kinds of challenges in deep evolutionary-revolutionary time that ‘living economy’ is de facto responding to.

In all these fields of material relationship the central concern is identifying dominant relations of production, and patterns of practice that bring altered relations of production into force.

In the field of ‘domesticated’ economy, some version of capital-colonial dominance and enclosure constitutes dominant relations of production. Just how relations of production are best characterised in relationships with wild nature and with digital means are matters of ongoing urgent enquiry in the making of living economy.

# Secondary framings of material provision Augmenting the three core framings of wild nature, domesticated economy and digital means, there are two further kinds of division that seem helpful in the landscape of material provision.

If the primary - material - 'real economy' of provisioning is the first division, the second division comprises ‘machineries’ which, while social-cultural in their material composition (just as the labour-processes of domesticated economy are), are technologies of *organising* provision and access, rather than of materially provisioning. They are intended to run either as much ‘like machines’ as possible or, sometimes, *as* hugely extended (digital) machines. Machineries of intermediation

We note: - Machineries of exchange - Moneys, systems of credit, etc - Machineries of provision - Logistics, operations management, open-value networks, contribution accounting, etc - Machineries of fair trade - Cross-region trade, organised in mutuality, in the face of dramatically uneven development and powerful capitalist and colonial formations. Reparation is a major consideration. Reparation - Machineries of access to provision - Forms of legal or traditional right and lawgiving, owning vs stewarding, the privilieges, obligations and sanctions of enjoying commons. Legal identity, privacy. - Machineries of rescue - Disaster response, epidemic virus response, humanitarian emergency.

And the third division comprises relationships with material that are boundary-crossing (transgressive, cyborg, monstrous?) with regard to the threefold form of the real economy. Transgressive and cyborg means

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