"Radical Commoning Practices in a Pluriverse facing planetary collapse" @ Valley of the Commons, Hirshwang an der Rax, 31.8&1.9.2026

I am very happy to be able to present the more radical aspects of commoning in contemporary political practice at the "Valley of the Commons" meeting taking place this year close to my hometown Vienna in the Austrian Alps. I'll show the movie of my friends and comrades of the Pirates de Lentillières on the night of the 31.8 and will give a lecture on the subsequent morning. Here is some more info, although not plenty: https://www.valleyofthecommons.com/ - find my abstracts below! <3

Une Île et une nuit

How can we think productively about escaping the ecocidal, capitalist system? In the film, both refugees from sub-Saharan Africa or former office workers from major European cities have their reasons for breaking away from this destructive system and building a new, queer life together with a positive relationship to the environment. 

The film “Une île et une nuit” by the Pirates de Lentillières is a unique document about the French radical scene centered around the “Zads” (zones à défendre) and the joy of fighting for a better life amid climate collapse. Shot in eleven languages without subtitles, the film enabled every participant to tell and bring to life their own personal story. The result is a surreal, at times almost childishly funny pirate epic about the struggle against corporate giants and for the preservation of land, which captivates every viewer in a somatic, pre-linguistic way. The film was created collectively—without hierarchies or direction—as part of the assemblies regularly held at the ZAD of the Quartier Libre de Lentillières in Dijon, and in both its style and subject matter, it serves as a living testament to how much more culture, joy, and empowerment can emerge through commoning. Shot on 16mm film despite having no budget, the film impressively demonstrates that culture flourishes much more vibrantly beyond capitalist appropriation and can organically become part of the collective struggle for (survival). 

Radical Commoning Practices in a Pluriverse facing planetary collapse 

On the following day, Kilian Jörg will share theories, experiences and practices from contemporary radical struggles around commons. They will talk about various strategies of reclaiming the common, from the Zapatistas to Galicia en Comun, from the Zads in France to the Swiss Aufstände der Allemende. In this workshop, questions of belonging, indigeneity, tradition, struggle and resistance will be raised and we will together draw a map of possible survivance through a pluralistic patchwork of various commoning strategies coming together and fighting for a landing of our economies and life-styles on the earth we live on.