The Question of “Public Space” by Rosalyn Deutsche
Why is public space such a ubiquitous and pressing question today? Why do debates rage over this question? Why do we care? Why, that is, are we here, in this seminar? What political issues are at stake? What are the political functions of rhetoric about public space? How have these changed in recent years? Over [...]
The political economy of public space by David Harvey
The idea of the “public sphere” as an arena of political deliberation and participation, and therefore as fundamental to democratic governance, has a long and distinguished history. The imagery of the Athenian agora as the physical space wherein that democratic ideal might be attained has also had a powerful hold upon the political imagination. As [...]
Spaces without time, Jasna Koteska
The paper was presented at the Radical Education Conference, 28-29 November 2009, Ljubljana. Jasna Koteska in her talk defines the difference between a capitalist and a communist perception of time. Communist regimes tried to restart the time, capitalists, on the other hand, manipulated with the perception of time in a way that they divided time [...]
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