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New Public Spaces: Dissensual Politics and Arts, a reader by REC

New Public Spaces: Dissensual Political and Artistic Practices in the post-Yugoslav Contex, a reader by Radical Education Collective

Gašper Kralj - New Public Spaces

Struggles for spaces

Darij Zadnikar - The Places Of Rebellion And The Empty Space

Andrej Kurnik, Barbara Beznec - Resident Alien: The Rog Experience on the Margin

Polona Mozetič - Workers’ Dormitory: From Private Property to [...]

New Public Spaces by Gašper Kralj

This article is an introduction to the forthcoming reader New Public Spaces: Dissensual Political and Artistic Practices in the Post-Yugoslav Context that will be published by Radical Education Collective and Jan van Eyck Academy by the end of July 2009.
Neoliberalism extended social borders far beyond the police-protected frontiers of newly constituted states. Denationalization masked not [...]

How to reclaim the common by Doina Petrescu

The destruction of public property
Cities in Eastern Europe faced spectacular transformations during the last decade. We have witnessed there, more than in other parts of the world, a dramatic devaluation of the idea of ‘common’ and ‘public’ and a violent destruction of the existing public property. If during the socialist regime, the social crisis was [...]

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