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Reclaiming the streets, producing an emancipatory public sphere-how does that work in a society that many call the information society, in which it seems that the spectacle has taken the place of political debate, in which urban space is progressively trimmed to neoliberal/economic imperatives.

What has thrust itself onto the stage of a globalized public sphere since the protests against the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle [1], politically ambiguous [2] yet unmistakable in the potpourri of forms of expressions, represents a practice of dealing with these kinds of questions.