Assamblies in the air: The ambulatory architecture of a politics in suspension

Authors

  • Adolfo Estalella Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
  • Alberto Corsín Jiménez Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Abstract

The 15M movement spread out in the streets of Madrid and other cities of Spain through popular assemblies. They are the method and form of the political exercise that the 15M movement deploy in the urban public space. Assemblies in the open air are organized following a precise methodology of rhythmic occupation of the street in a political exercise that brings to the fore the bodies of their participants. Inhabiting the urban public space popular assemblies put into practice the most genuine political gesture: that of airing things that concern us. We explore in this article for the political atmosphere that assemblies bring to the city and we point out
two singular aspects: an ambulatory architecture characterized by the urban passing around and a set of caring practices preoccupied by the participants in the assembly. Our argument is that assemblies in the air constitute an exercise of politics in suspension by exposing its own fragility and making public its own conditions of possibility.

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Published

2014-11-12

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How to Cite

Estalella, A., & Corsín Jiménez, A. (2014). Assamblies in the air: The ambulatory architecture of a politics in suspension. Antropología Experimental, 13. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1895