Piotr Juskowiak

Adam Mickiewicz University | UAM · Institute of Cultural Studies

The article is a complex attempt to present the achievements of the broadly understood urban Marxism in the field of reinterpretation of the classic concept from the cards of Capital – “primitive accumulation”. Drawing on theories of such scholars as David Harvey (“accumulation by dispossession”) or Saskia Sassen (“expulsions”), the author points t...

The article is a proposal to go beyond the perspective of the public space, which, as I argue in its first part, not only frequently fails as a platform to fight the neoliberal status quo, but it also blocks the political imagination to other visions of pursuing urban politics. This is due to both its internal contradictions and the increasing degr...

This article offers a critical reflection on so-called ethically oriented zoos, which, at least since the 1970s, often under the banner of contemporary Noah’s arks, have sought to move into the position of new institutions of nature conservation. In the following sections, I argue that the limitations inherent in the metaphor of the ark – e.g. anth...

In this article, I ask how Henri Lefebvre’s oeuvre can contribute to the foundations for a metromarxist theory of urban commoning. To provide an answer to this question I discuss three main areas in which his thinking about the common emerges – his anthropology, philosophy of the urban, and politics of autogestion. This allows me to emphasize the m...

The article seeks to develop an alternative model of biopolitics based on the experience of stray dogs in the context of the transformation of the modern urban fabric. Its main goal is to show, on the one hand, that the purificatory actions of biopower in the context of street-dwelling dogs were an inalienable condition of modern urbanization in th...

In this article, I ask how Henri Lefebvre's oeuvre can contribute to the foundations for a metromarxist theory of urban commoning. To provide an answer to this question I discuss three main areas in which his thinking about the common emerges-his anthropology, philosophy of the urban, and politics of autogestion. This allows me to emphasize the mul...

This article ponders on the potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily the first-ever global lockdown, on the relations between humans and non-human animals in the city. Referring to the ideas of multi-species ethnography and other posthumanist approaches, the author shows that although the direct impacts of the mentioned event turned ou...

The article is the introduction to the special issue of Theoretical Practice which is dedicated to “the communes and other mobile commons”. The editors of the issue explain how we could conceptualize various attempts to create communes in terms of mobile commons and mobile commoning. Since the exemplary case of the Paris Commune many social movemen...

Artykuł stanowi polemiczną próbę przemyślenia roli sektora logistycznego w najważniejszych transformacjach współczesnej tkanki miejskiej. Choć wiele wskazuje na to, że jest on ważnym warunkiem wyłonienia się miasta postindustrialnego, jak również katalizatorem innych, równie krytycz-nych transformacji, rewolucja w logistyce pozostaje jednym z najba...

http://www.ejournals.eu/Przeglad-Kulturoznawczy/2018/Numer-1-35-2018/art/11426/

The primary goal of this article is to reinterpret the most essential recent transformations of the logistics sector (e.g. new forms and functions of infrastructure, innovations in the field of software and space production, and specificity of logistical cities) from the perspective of critical urban studies. To do so, I draw inspiration from Marx’...

Real Subsumption of Labor Under Capital and Dispossession Practices. Questions to Michael Hardt.

In a lecture dedicated to “the urban question”,Giorgio Agamben characterized modern spatial transfor-mations in terms of moving from the city, as a traditionalform of spatial organization, to the metropolis. =is processcoincides, according to the Italian philosopher, with thebirth of modern biopolitics, specialized in producing andmanaging the bare...