Are the so-called ‘Third Spaces’ really commons ?

Tackling two important questions: 1) What ‘really’ is a proper commons ? 2) What is the proper relation of commons-based institutions to the public (state) sphere ?

One of the aims of this Substack blog is to refract commons-thinking from non-anglophone countries, and in particular from France, a country that I have privileged relations with. This particular text is about ‘third spaces’, i.e. spaces that are neither fully private, nor fully public, but somewhere in between. One could describe them as ‘convivial’, a…