Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

Enhorabuena Javier!!

1. La vivienda en alquiler se ha convertido en un gran negocio. Los rentistas controlan la economía y la política, pero destrozan la sociedad.

Hay alternativas. La generación inquilina puede acabar con esta desigualdad y cambiar el modelo para siempre.

A partir del 9 de marzo🙌🧵

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En este trabajo construimos una idea compartida sobre lo que podemos entender por cooperación público-comunitaria

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The Commons w/ Peter Linebaugh Featuring Peter Linebaugh on the long histories of commons and commoning, connections between enclosures in Europe and imperial conquest abroad, and writing history from below.

A podcast on commons and enclosure processes with the one and only Peter Linebaugh 👇🏾
thedigradio.com/podcast/the-...

🚨NEW article from me: a critique of the traditions of Ecological Marxism for neglecting working-class agency and political organization.

This one was a long strange trip (first submitted a version in 2023 before it found a home, after many revisions).

OPEN ACCESS👇👇👇

🚨 LAUNCHING 🚨 State of Power 2026 🚨

Fascism and the far right are on the rise. Beyond headlines, we examine the reasons for their rise, the economic interests that support them, how they weaponise today’s social and ecological crises, and proposals for how to fight back.
www.tni.org/en/publicati...

spotted in the hood

On Wednesday next week, Søren Mau will join us to talk about his book "Mute Compulsion" - a novel theory of the forms of abstract and impersonal power set in motion by the subjection of social life to the profit imperative.
More info: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/mute-c...
@sorenmau.bsky.social

A Century-Old Adobe Schoolhouse Is Being Restored as a Community Hub in New Mexico A small town in northern New Mexico is punching above its weight with a local historic preservation project.

A small town in northern New Mexico is punching above its weight with a local historic preservation project, restoring a century-old adobe school building as a thriving community hub. I love, love, loved reporting on this project!

Does anyone here have access to a PDF copy of Henry J. Lethbridge's The Peasant and the Communes (Dragonfly Books, 1963)?

An Injury To All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class will be published by Verso in October!

Today I submitted responses to last comments from my editor and worked on the blurb. It's getting closer and closer!

Enzo Traverso, "What is Fascism? Revisiting the Stanford Seminar Sixty Years Later" YouTube video by George L. Mosse Program in History

A lecture by Enzo Traverso, on old and new forms of Fascism.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUjo...

On commonist urbanisation: Autonomy and centrality within and beyond the city - Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, 2026 Urban commons are widely regarded as key sites of resistance to capitalism. Yet their ‘urban’ status is often framed as a self-evident locative attribute with l...

My article, 'On commonist urbanisation: Autonomy and centrality within and beyond the city', has found a final home in the latest issue of @urbanstudiesjournal.com. An attempt to transcend the notions of commune and urbanization, exploring the form of alternative urban futures.

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A week ago now, we published our latest episode which is part of the (currently more relevant than ever) Authoritarian Urbanism Series:

urbanpolitical.online/102-authorit...

Have a listen via our website or on Spotify while the next episode of the series is already in the making!

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

Looking forward to this one from @versobooks.bsky.social 👇

Decolonizing planning perspectives: opportunities for the future The concept of decolonization has received significant critical attention across academic disciplines, including planning history, leading some scholars to caution against its conceptual stretching...

"Decolonizing planning perspectives: opportunities for the future" -- new article by Juliet Davis and Clare Melhuish in Planning Perspectives

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Les communs à l’épreuve" --
Le dernier numéro de Dérivations publie une longue entretien sur les liens entre l’histoire de l’urbanisme et la destruction de l'espace social. Merci à Aurélie Delage et Max Rousseau pour cet stimulante échange.
derivations.be/numeros/nume...

*Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo* ha sido premiado en la XVII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo @cscae.bsky.social

Más información sobre el concepto de esta bienal y proyectos seleccionados aquí: labienal.es

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

A thoughtful and generous review of Against the Commons in @soziopolis.bsky.social by Michael Schwind (in German). It includes an interesting opening note on the aversion to radical and Marxist perspectives in contemporary planning studies.

Wie hängen kapitalistische Herrschaftsverhältnisse und staatliche Stadtplanung zusammen? Sehr eng, schreibt Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago @multipliciudad.bsky.social in „Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning”. Michael Schwind hat das Buch besprochen:

www.soziopolis.de/stadtplanung...

Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning Published in disP - The Planning Review (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2025)

“A book that urban planners should read when they occasionally doubt their profession and ask themselves what urban planning should and can achieve” — A positive review of Against the Commons by Klaus R. Kunzmann in disP – The Planning Review (in German).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Against the Commons. A Radical History of Urban Planning Published in disP - The Planning Review (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2025)

"ein Buch, das Stadtplaner lesen sollten, die gelegentlich an ihrem Beruf zweifeln und sich fragen, was Stadtplanung erreichen sollte und kann" - Eine positive Rezension von Against the Commons von Klaus R. Kunzmann in disP-The Planning Review.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to this one...

"Centros sociales autogestionados: teoría, historia y política urbana" | Seminario online con Miguel A. Martínez, organizado por el Máster en Planeamiento Urbano de @upm-urbanismo.bsky.social @upm.es

Miércoles 8 oct, 12:30h, abierto al público a través del enlace del póster.

Esquenta urbBA[25] Contra o comum: Uma história radical do urbanismo | Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago YouTube video by Lugar Comum

Seminário sobre *Contra o comum* com os colegas da Universidade Federal da Bahia. Amanhã, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (Espanha), aqui:

Debate sobre *Contra lo común* con los compañeros de la Universidad Federal de Bahía. Mañana, 11h30 (Brasil) / 16h30 (España), aquí:

www.youtube.com/live/dS0j06C...

First day of term at Cambridge tomorrow. Here's an excellent book to inspire the teachers of the world for this academic year.