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Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997-2017
Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997-2017
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Free Culture and the City explores how free software spread from hackers and software engineers to an urban movement, leading to the transformation of cities. Digital activists embraced a philosophy of free software and free culture to reclaim and resculpt the city, with dramatic effects in Madrid.
Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2023
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Free Culture and the City delves into the fascinating phenomenon of how free software, initially confined to the realm of hackers and software engineers, expanded to become the foundation of an urban movement that is now widely regarded as a model for emulation. By the late 1990s, digital activists embraced a philosophy of free software and free culture with the aim of reclaiming control over their cities and daily lives. Free culture, which had previously been closely associated with the digital sphere.
However, it was liberated and repurposed to reshape the urban landscape. In Madrid, the effects were striking. Common spaces in the city were abandoned as industrial factories transformed into autonomous social centers, urban orchards, guerrilla architectural camps, or community hacklabs.
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic and historical research with free culture collectives in Madrid, Free Culture and the City offers a comprehensive exploration of how this practice of liberating culture necessitated the mobilization and alliances of a diverse range of stakeholders. These stakeholders include public art centers, neighborhood associations, squatted social centers, hackers, intellectual property lawyers, street artists, guerrilla architectural collectives, and Occupy assemblies.
Weight: 454g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501767173
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