By Yavor Tarinski
City life, from its beginning, was all about uniting people that were not bonded by blood or clan ties. The only thing that connected them was the urban space they created and the ways of life it leads to. Continue reading “The bureaucratization of urban space and the need to reclaim our cities”
By Yavor Tarinski
“Free public transportation implies many changes, a completely new way to look at the city, both in terms of how we move and how we tax, but also how we live, where we live, how we relate to each other as a society, and our broader relationship to the urban, regional and global eco-system.”
Judith Dellheim & Jason Prince [1] Continue reading “Free Public Transport and the Right to the City”
City, Municipality, Commons: Rebel Cities in the Neoliberal Age
By Yavor Tarinski
Pages: 42
Continue reading “City, Municipality, Commons: Rebel Cities in the Neoliberal Age”
By Yavor Tarinski
Introduction
Life on this planet, as we know it, is a result of fragile environmental conditions that the contemporary predominant neoliberal system has already began to alter. Capitalism and its doctrine of unlimited economic growth seems to completely neglect this dependency and continues to violently exploit nature for the benefit of tiny elites, thus increasing their already enormous power. Continue reading “Commons, Social Ecology and the Transcending of Capitalism”
By Yavor Tarinski
*The present text was delivered as a speech in a panel, entitled “Overcoming the State”, part of the 3rd Antiauthoritarian Festival in Ioannina, Greece (June, 2017).
[T]he rhetoric of Thatcher and of Reagan has changed nothing of importance (the change in formal ownership of a few large enterprises does not essentially alter their relation to the State), . . . the bureaucratic structure of the large firm remains intact [and] half of the national product transits the public sector in one way or another (State, local governmental organizations, Social Security); . . . between half and two-thirds of the price of goods and services entering into the final national expenditure are in one way or another fixed, regulated, controlled, or influenced by State policy, and . . . the situation is irreversible (ten years of Thatcher and Reagan made no essential changes therein).[1]
Cornelius Castoriadis Continue reading “Overcoming the State by Reinventing the Polis”
Interview by Antonis Brumas and Yavor Tarinski
Some believe that the commons are incompatible with commodity markets. Others claim that markets and commons may form mutually beneficial relations with each other. What are your own views on this issue? Continue reading “The Future is a “Pluriverse”- An Interview with David Bollier on the Potential of the Commons”
By Yavor Tarinski
Hence the citizens of a city are of no less concern to me than the city itself, for the city at its best eventually became an ethical union of people, an ethical as well as social eco-community, not simply a dense collection of structures designed for no other purpose than to provide goods and services for its anonymous residents.
Murray Bookchin[1] Continue reading “Community Through Urban Design”
By Yavor Tarinski
Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space.
Henri Lefebvre[1]
The importance of the city nowadays is increasing since, for first time in history, the bigger part of the human population lives in urban spaces and the city’s economic role is at its peak. As Antonio Negri suggests: “the city is itself a source of production: the organized, inhabited, and traversed territory has become a productive element just as worked land once was. Increasingly, the inhabitant of a metropolis is the true center of the world…”[2]. That’s why it has been referred to over and over again in debates over political, economic, social and other strategies for the future. Continue reading “Reclaiming the urban space”
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