Capital attempts to claim more and more for its own and is seemingly a-ok with letting what is outside of its sphere collapse. In this era of “the state” seemingly retreating from a “civic function”, when what was “public space” is more and more privatized, social practice becomes interesting because it can fill in that space of “the public” and meet “public needs”. In this era, social practice becomes interesting to radical practitioners because of because one is able to organize one’s own reception within complicated and ambiguous places.
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