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  One year after our Urban Commons issue, we’re returning to the idea of the communal, this time investigating just how diversely the concept of “commune” can be interpreted – and not always with entirely benevolent intentions or successful results.
  
  Whether trying to escape a broken economy or an oppressive system via new forms of existence or looking to break the system itself via anarchic methodologies, forming a commune traditionally involves segregation or stepping “outside” society.
  
  But no matter how off-grid and back-to-nature the contemporary communities that we investigate here are, it turns out they are far more connected than we think.

   

  Turn on, tune out, drop in.
   

   The editors

  Cover image: Andrew and Taurin drinking raw goat's milk, Tennessee, from “A Natural Order” by Lucas Foglia.

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Commune Revisited
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Commune Revisited
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Communities of Consciousness

  From Drop City to the digital by Fred Turner

  Text: Fred Turner
• FOUND

  FOUND

  New Harmony

  (1825-1827)

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Arthouse Revival

  Xucun, China

  Text: Elvia Wilk
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  On Cooperation

  An interview with Richard Sennett by Rob Wilson

  Text: Rob Wilson
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Let’s Get Gated

  International Residential Complex Rosinka, Moscow

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Paris Commune

  (1871)

  Text: Rob Wilson
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  A Natural Order

  Photographer Lucas Foglia portrays outsider life in rural America

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The People’s Commune

  (1958-1983)

  Text: Fiona Shipwright
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  The Mothership

  Auroville, Tamil Nadu State, India

  Text: Sara Faezypour
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  The Rule of Hours

  James Marriott on Hans van der Laan's Abdij Sint Benedictusberg

  Text: James Marriott
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Eco Beach

  Lima, Peru

  Text: Sara Faezypour
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Enduring Concensus

  Malcolm Miles on Freetown Christiania at forty-three

  Text: Malcolm Miles
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Connected Communards

  Mount Telaithrion, Euboea, Greece

  Text: Florian Heilmeyer
• PHOTO BOOTH

  PHOTO BOOTH

  In the Photo Booth with...

  Piet Hein Eek

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XXIV. Fifty years inside the bubble

  Text: Klaus
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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