Free Culture and the City : : Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997–2017 / / Adolfo Estalella, Alberto Corsín Jiménez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Corsín Jiménez, Alberto,; Estalella, Adolfo,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 17 b&w halftones

Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers to become the basis for an urban movement now heralded by scholars as a model for emulation and inspiration. By the late 1990s digital activists embraced a philosophy of free software and "free culture" to take control over their cities and everyday lives. Free culture, once tethered to the digital realm, was cut loose, and used to reclaim and re-sculpt the city. In Madrid these effects were dramatic and notable. Common sights in the city are abandoned industrial factories turned into autonomous social centers, urban orchards, guerrilla architectural camps, or community hacklabs. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic and historical work with free culture collectives in Madrid, Free Culture and the City shows how, in its journey from the digital to the urban, the practice of liberating culture required the mobilization of, and alliance between, public art centers, neighborhood associations, squatted social centers, hackers, intellectual property lawyers, street artists, guerrilla architectural collectives, and Occupy assemblies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Free Culture and the City -- Part 1 THE CULTURES OF THE FREE CITY -- Introduction -- 1. Free Neighborhoods -- 2. The Copyleft and the (Copy) Right to the City -- 3. The City in Flames -- Part 2. CLIMATES OF METHODS -- Introduction -- 4. More Than Many and Less Than One -- 5. Freedom in 3D -- Part 3 MATTERS OF SENSE -- Introduction -- 6. Assembling Neighbors -- 7. Ambulations -- Part 4 BRICOLAGES OF APPRENTICESHIPS -- Introduction -- 8. Auto-Construction Redux -- Conclusion: Notes on Intransitive Urbanism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index