Beyond capitalist enclosure, commodification and alienation: Postcapitalist praxis as commons, social production and useful doing

Abstract

The idea of postcapitalism is used to forward a spatial agenda in this study. We sketch out its features across three transitional landscapes between capitalism and postcapitalism: the fight against enclosure via the creation of commons, the fight against commercialization through socially useful production, and the fight against alienation from work through joyful doing. The second part of the article delves into three current debates—community economies, post-work, and autonomous perspectives—to examine the many ways in which postcapitalism is being used. After that, we shed light on the ways in which platform cooperatives, as a social practice, connect to postcapitalist debates and terrains. Finally, we take a look at the postcapitalist social and geographical environment, which is still in its early stages and not fully constituted.