The Authority Research Network (ARN) is a research collective engaging with questions around experimental and affective authority relations,  power, alienation, and the making of the commons. Recent and ongoing collaborative research includes a project on nonhuman political participation, an editorial partnership with OpenDemocracy, and a book on space, power, and the commons. We are interested in topics including:

• Embodied techniques of authorization
• Experiential and affective modes of power
• The politics of the commons
• Alternative & post-humanist political participation
• Performative landscapes of authority

• Alternative objectivities
• Food security and sovereignty

Collaborations in the Maya Forest

Space, Power and the Commons

Listening With Non-Human Others