Beyond the Public Space: Reproducing the Urban Political through the Radical Practices of Commoning
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https://doi.org/10.18778/2300-1690.19.06Keywords:
public space, post-politics, urban commons, commoning, common space, the political, social reproduction, squattingAbstract
The article is a proposal to go beyond the perspective of the public space, which, as I argue in its first part, not only frequently fails as a platform to fight the neoliberal status quo, but it also blocks the political imagination to other visions of pursuing urban politics. This is due to both its internal contradictions and the increasing degree of depoliticization, which I treat as the primary objective of the new mutation of the entrepreneurial city. What helps to move beyond that perspective are the practices of commoning that are analyzed in the second and third parts of the article, where I examine the political ontology of urban commons and various aspects of collective acts of reclaiming the city (using the example of Athenian squats for refugees). The article emphasizes their role in broadening the dominant concept of the political by revaluing such seemingly non-political issues as housing or social reproduction. It also draws attention to the need to disseminate commoning practices, which, by combining the pragmatism of the everyday struggle for survival with a utopian vision of a more autonomous city, constitute one of the most important tools for neutralizing the effects of neoliberal meta-crisis.
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