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Tag Archives: Enclosure
Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA
I’ll be giving a talk at the AA School of Architecture next week (March 1st, 6:30PM, more info here), in the context of the PhD programme coordinated by Maria S. Giudici and Pier Vittorio Aureli. As I mentioned in a … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged AA School of Architecture, Commons, Displacement, Dispossession, Enclosure, Original accumulation, Planning, Planning history, Primitive accumulation, Representation, Urban design
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Dispossession and territory at the AA School of Architecture
Next week I will be at the AA School of Architecture to discuss the work of students of Diploma 14, the unit led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. I was astonished to discover the subject they chose … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons
I have been away from the blog for a little while—this time, in addition to the usual excuses of work overload, due to the paperwork and related administrative hustle and bustle for an upcoming visit to Harvard Graduate School of … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Martin Wagner, My research, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged Commons, Enclosure, Espacio social, Extreme territories of urbanization, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Historia social de la planificación, Martin Arboleda, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern planning, Planetary Urbanization, Planning history, Siedlung, Social history of planning, Urban commons, Urban community, Urban history, Urban renewal, Urban Theory Lab, Walter Gropius
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural design, Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Commons, DUyOT, Espacio y política, Investigación urbanística, Planning history, Sin categoría, Urban studies
Tagged Antipode, Architectural design studio, Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons, Commons, DUyOT, Enclosure, Espais Crítics, ETSAM, Juan Herreros, Máster habilitante, Neil Smith, Planning history, Urban research
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Historia del urbanismo, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Mis publicaciones, Parliamentary Enclosure, Space and politics
Tagged Antipode, Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago, Commodification, Commons, Critical geography, Dispossession, Enclosure, Marketization, Privatization, Radical geography, Spatial techniques, Spatial theory
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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 … Continue reading
Jet lag, acumulación primitiva, piruetas teóricas
De vuelta ya en Madrid y peleando con el desfase horario, un par de deadlines y el inevitable recollection of memories de Cambridge: memoria minuitur, nisi eam exerceas… Aprovecho el insomnio estos días para continuar el texto que tenía en … Continue reading
Cerrando ciclos, abriendo perspectivas
Además de trazar nuevas líneas de desarrollo e indagación, el trabajo para mi estancia en la GSD de Harvard está suponiendo una oportunidad para revisitar varios temas que han aparecido de forma intermitente en mi periplo en los últimos años. … Continue reading
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