Contemporary events drew me to a new reflection on the Paris Commune, which for many remains a kind of paradigm for the insurgent city. My books are always interventions into specific situations. ![]() They experienced their own neighborhoods transformed into theaters for strategic operations and lived a profound modification of their own affective relation to urban space. Militants across the world had reopened and were experiencing the space-time of occupation, with all the fundamental changes in daily life this implies. Kristin Ross: Like many people after 2011 I was struck by the return-from Oakland to Istanbul, Montreal to Madrid-of a political strategy based on seizing space, taking up space, rendering public places that the state considered private. How does your book add to our understanding of this world-historical event, and why did you decide to write it now? ROAR: The Paris Commune has been studied and debated for almost a century and a half. ![]() ROAR editor Jerome Roos spoke to her about the Commune’s legacy, its impact on 19 th century radical thought, and the revival of the communal imaginary in our times. ![]() Her recent book, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015), is a masterful study of the ideas and aspirations driving the historic working-class revolt of 1871. Kristin Ross is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. The Commune of 1871 was never truly vanquished-its political imaginary lived on and is today being liberated and revived in a new cycle of struggles.
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