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Therefore, the rest of this book offers a way in which ethics can be thought about pragmatically to organize and maintain commoning to resist the potential evil of capitalism subsuming the (natural, material, psychological, social, cultural and economic) resources that a commons can help to create, maintain, protect and diffuse throughout society.

Specifically, seven ethics of the planetary commons have been identified, which, I believe, offer ways to recognize how commoning occurs, how it can be catalysed and, crucially, when it is being co-opted, or enclosed by the prevailing order of capitalistic ideologies and succumbing to a totalizing ‘evil’. These ethics have not been arrived at arbitrarily; each has been considered as part of a layered whole that together forms a broad suite of resources. Each ethic is haunted by its opposite, a mirror image ready to subsume it if it is not practised ‘ethically’. One thing that they are not is a framework, or scaffolding or an instruction manual. If anything, they act as a trellis, encouraging continued commoning above, over, through and beyond (they are open-source). Each ethic builds upon the last, but they can also be read separately as they will apply variably in different situations, places and events. So through the ethics of mutualism, transmaterialism, minoritarianism, decodification, slowness, failure and love, this book aims to propel commoning as a productive force for change in the/a/your/our world.