La Constelación de los Comunes
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies announces a workshop by Professor Palmar Álvarez Blanco in the Graduate Class SPAN 5150: Arte Indignado: Respuestas desde el arte, la cultura y el activismo a las múltiples crisis en la España contemporánea.
“La Constelación de los Comunes”
Thursday, March 19
Presentation and activities introducing the history and political potential of the concept of the commons. (2:30–5:30)
Thursday, March 26
Group exploration of La constelación de los comunes and collaborative creation of entries for its co-dictionary. (2:30–5:30)
About the Speaker
Palmar Álvarez-Blanco is professor of Spanish and the Broom Fellow for public scholarship at Carleton College. She is the co-founder and coordinator of the international association ALCESXXI, a space dedicated to critical and public intervention in research, educational, and cultural areas threatened by capitalist interference.
As a cultural researcher, Palmar Álvarez-Blanco focuses on tracing the historical issues and crises inherent to the capitalist system, as well as on situated analysis and documentation of the transition towards a system based on the logic of the commons. This work is captured in the cartography and living open archive of The Constellation of the Commons.
Selected Publications:
- Pequeño tratado de amistad: hacia una política del respeto (2024)
- En ruta con el común: Archivo y memoria de una constelación posible (2017–18–19) (2020)
- Oikonomía y acción ciudadana: atravesando sistemas con la Constelación de lo Común (2020–2023) (2024)
- Abrir la visión. El legado de Toni Serra) Abu Ali* (2025)
- Contornos de la narrativa española actual (2000-2010): Un diálogo entre creadores y críticos (2014)
- La imaginación hipotecada: Aportaciones al debate sobre la precariedad del presente (2016)
