Free culture and the city: hackers, commoners, and neighbors in Madrid, 1997-2017

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 softwa...

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Main Authors: Corsín Jiménez, Alberto (Author), Estalella, Adolfo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] ; London Cornell University Press 2023
Series:Expertise : cultures and technologies of knowledge
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 268 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781501767197
9781501767203
DOI:10.1515/9781501767197

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