Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday

''Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday'' is the outcome of a research project pursued by a group of artists, architects and social theorists, who in the face of exhilarating politics of accumulation and dispossession explore commoning as the subject as well as the means of their collective study. The power of the commons, this book suggests, does not reside in the promise of a coming together free of friction: As different dimensions of power organize the overdetermined terrain of the social, social movements are often caught between competing agendas, and the gap between aims and everyday life. It is precisely the sites of these struggles that the book calls spaces of commoning. As such, this study is part of a much wider recognition of the necessity to re-think and undo the methodological premises of Western sciences, arts and architecture, and to raise unsettling questions on research ethos, accountability and the entanglement of power and knowledge. -------------------- With contributions by Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Anette Baldauf, Tesfaye Bekele Beri, Aluminé Cabrera, Silvia Federici, Elizabeth Giorgis, Stefan Gruber, Stefano Harney, Moira Hille, Mihret Kebede, Annette Krauss, Lisa Lowe, Maria Mesner, Vladimir Miller, Stavros Stavrides, Pelin Tan, Team at Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory, Brook Teklehaimanot, Ultra-red, Mara Verlic, Hong-Kai Wang, Julia Wieger
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