{"id":1987,"date":"2025-12-09T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1987"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:53:28","slug":"communize-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/?p=1987","title":{"rendered":"Communize the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Communize the city!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzeivdVZ2hw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This episode begins with Kike Espa\u00f1a\u2019 presenting his essay \u201cCommunize the City: Towards an Insurgent Vicinity,\u201d a text that examines the contemporary urban condition through the lens of financial brutalism, before segueing into a discussion of themes from it. Espa\u00f1a argues that cities have become logistical infrastructures of extraction, where financialization, automation, and real-estate speculation converge to displace communities and dissolve social relations. Drawing on thinkers such as Mbembe, Lefebvre, Guattari, and Moten, the essay frames the city-form as a planetary apparatus of expulsion \u2013 one that transforms citizenship, civility, and urban renewal into mechanisms of enclosure, discipline, and dispossession. Against this backdrop, Espa\u00f1a calls for insurgent forms of inhabiting that arise from the ruins of financial brutalism: practices of neighborhood, subsistence, and insurgency that refuse recognition by the dominant order while cultivating new forms of common life. By foregrounding the \u201cinformality of the commune\u201d and proposing strategies like neighborhood committees, blocks in struggle, and intercommunalism, the text insists on the possibility of communizing the city from within its fractures. The seminar invites participants to reflect on how these concepts might inform both critical theory and practical organizing in the face of today\u2019s planetary urban crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Bio:<\/b> Kike Espa\u00f1a is an architect and urban researcher based in M\u00e1laga, Spain, with a PhD in urban theory from the University of Seville. He is actively involved in grassroots cultural-urban initiatives, including the social and cultural centre La Casa Invisible, the collective bookshop Suburbia, and the independent publishing house Subtextos. His work bridges academic inquiry and activist practice. He contributes to the Overtourist City research project at the School of Architecture, University of M\u00e1laga, and his writings explore themes of gentrification, commoning, and insurgent urbanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode begins with Kike Espa\u00f1a\u2019 presenting his essay \u201cCommunize the City: Towards an Insurgent Vicinity,\u201d a text that examines the contemporary urban condition through the lens of financial brutalism, before segueing into a discussion of themes from it. Espa\u00f1a argues that cities have become logistical infrastructures of extraction, where financialization, automation, and real-estate speculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minorcompositions.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}