Gerador #47 – Recover the Collective

Issue #47 reflects on the weakening of the idea of ​​collectivism and on how individualism undermines what is common.

The isolation was not an accident.

From Isolation as a Symptom to Collectivism as Infrastructure is a report by journalist Amina Bawa that analyzes contemporary isolation as a result of a political, economic, and cultural project that weakens social bonds and transforms structural problems into individual failures. Based on data and interviews from Portugal, Brazil, and the United States, the text contrasts individualism as an ideal of success with the collective practices of the Global South, the peripheries, Black diasporas, and immigrant communities.

What appropriation of the public and the commons?

What if the public sphere didn’t have to belong to the State to be truly common? In this essay, French philosopher and researcher Pierre Dardot questions how we think about public services, territories, and institutions, proposing that the common sphere be made not a margin of society, but a force capable of reconfiguring the State, democracy, and how we inhabit the world together.

To reclaim the night sky as a common good.

What if the night sky, humanity’s oldest common good, were being privatized before our very eyes? Based on the history of Operation Moonwatch and the contemporary expansion of satellites like Starlink, this text by the German collective Froh! proposes a reflection on how we have stopped looking at the sky together and have begun to see it mediated by technological, military, and corporate infrastructures.

Cartographies of the Common: Vernacular Images and the Reconstruction of the Collective

Can forgotten images be a way of reconstructing the common good? The visual work of the Ideias no Escuro archive uses vernacular images to map traces of collective life. Between domestic scenes, neighborhood parties, anonymous protests, and shared routines, a common memory emerges that challenges the privatization of care, belonging, and political imagination.

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In a world saturated by individual logic and digital control, “reprogram_existence=”colectiv” imagines the possibility of a new programming of communal life. Constança Viegas Martins’ visual work crosses public space, community, and technology to envision a utopia where the collective ceases to be an abstraction and becomes a form of political, affective, and social reorganization between the virtual and the real.