Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017
| Dates: | 6 November 2023 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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Alberto Corsin Jimenez (Spanish National Research Council): Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners and neighbours in Madrid, 1997-2017.
This talk introduces our recently published book, Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997-2017. The book charts the rise of libertarian municipalism in Madrid at the turn of the twenty first century. Drawing on two decades of historical and ethnographic work with free culture collectives in the city (hackers, neighbourhood associations, squatted social centers, guerrilla architectural collectives, street artists, intellectual property lawyers, Occupy assemblies) we introduce the concept of free/libre urbanism. Free or libre urbanism inchoates an image of the city?that is premised on aspirations that are vastly different from those encapsulated by the liberal city and public urbanism. But it is also different from the revindications for an urbanism of the commons, although in parts it overlaps with them. Free/libre urbanism stands at the crossroads of three liberation agendas: the liberation philosophy of free software hackers, the libertarian aspirations of autonomous activists, and the struggles over the right to the city of neighborhood activists. The questions that drive free/libre urbanism revolve not so much around modes of governance, scale, or organization as around trajectories of experiment, apprenticeship and sensing-together.
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