Tag: Enclosure
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Reclaiming the Commons | Critical art and translocality
Next week I will join a number of artists, activists and scholars at Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst to participate in the symposium ‘How critique becomes translocal – Reclaiming the commons’. Here is the presentation of the event: In 2014, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles presented her installation La Búsqueda at Migrosmuseum in Zurich. The…
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Back to the academic front…
Back in the trenches, getting ready for the new semester with two courses to teach, ‘Ciudad y Urbanismo’ —an introduction to the analysis of urban processes, related bog in Spanish here— and ‘Taller de Urbanismo’. The latter is a workshop in the new Master in Design of our School of Architecture, part of an educational…
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New article in Antipode | ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’
My latest article, ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’, is now available online at the early view webpage of Antipode. This was a great opportunity to sum up some of my recent explorations of the historical geography of enclosure, tracking its morphologies on a range of different periods and scales;…
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Acumulación por desposesión en Grecia
Es conocida la tesis de cómo el neoliberalismo ha rescatado la denominada ‘acumulación primitiva’ —en castellano común, enriquecerse a través de la apropiación de recursos y capitales ajenos sin que medie inversión, producción o trabajo alguno en el proceso— haciendo de ella un nuevo motor de beneficio en una era de contracción de las tradicionales…
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