Astypalaia
by Nikos Belavilas*
“We can prove that we are entitled to dream with realism, defining together and putting into practice what until yesterday was deemed unattainable.”
We are experiencing the effects of market design, of a “casino-capitalism” that produces crises for many and wealth for the very few. Greece and the whole of Europe, while sinking in an economic and social chaos are suffering from the same nightmare. The commodification of land, the sale of public property, environmental disasters, the big transportation and energy projects, the «mega-projects» of urban regeneration are all part of it. Hailed as development tools they are in fact tools of the real estate bubble this side of the Atlantic. Behind them lies the highly unified corruption of the European political and economic elite as well as a plan to seize state, public and private resources, a plan to conquest public space in its constitutive and physical sense. Continue reading
