New public spaces
“Revolution has to be urban or nothing at all” Lefebvre
Although it seems that public spaces have disappeared, there is a challenging realm of social and political experimentations that reappropriate their meaning through practice. Emerging new public spaces presuppose the transversal collaboration between individuals, collectives and movements “outside the consensus” of both transnational capital and institutions of governance (including parties, universities, unions, museums, non-governmental organizations, etc.). Therefore they are not just imagined “alternative” communities. They are potencia that act as counter-powers to the dominant production of knowledge and subjectivity.
