Private – Public – Common

In recent years, the opposition between the Public and the Private has come to occupy an important place in political debates, a trend accentuated by the economic and nancial crisis. In this series of debates, we start from the contrasts between the Public and the Private and between the Government and the Market, discussing them in different dimensions of everyday life: the organisation of work (13 Oct), the construction of cities (20 Oct), media space (27 Oct), health policy (03 Nov) and educational processes (10 Nov). We will seek to analyse changes over recent decades, both nationally and globally, and pinpoint new paths in a debate that goes beyond simple opposition between the Public and the Private or the Government and the Market. If, on the one hand, we want to clearly map out what separates the Private and the Public, on the other we want to question forms of power that reach beyond these binary concepts. The initial discussion with Michael Hardt (11 Oct) immediately sets de mark, proposing an alternative category: the Commonwealth.