Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday
<p><em>Spaces of Commoning: Artistic Research and the Utopia of the Everyday</em> 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 terrain of the social, social movements are often caught between competing agendas, and in 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 rethink 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.</p>
Series Editor: Eva Blimlinger, Andrea B. Braidt, Karin Riegler
Editors: Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, Julia Wieger
Authors: Stefano Harney, Pelin Tan, Anette Baldauf, Stefan Gruber, Moira Hille, Annette Krauss, Vladimir Miller, Mara Verlič, Hong-Kai Wang, Julia Wieger, Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew, Stavros Stavrides, Brook Teklehaimanot, Maria Mesner, Silvia Federici, Aluminé Cabrera, Tesfaye Bekele Beri, Mihret Kebede, Elizabeth Giorgis, Lisa Lowe
Coordinator: Martina Huber
Copyeditor: Helen Chang
Proofreader: Niamh Dunphy
Designer: Surface (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin)
Sternberg Press, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Part of: Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
ISBN: 978-3-95679-266-3