Conceptual approach to the lost commons (I) Public Spheres: From the aristocratic salons to the local bars

Abstract

In this article I try to trace the enclosing and structure of the way in which men and women have been socializing from the end of the Wars of Religion, key moment of the birth of the urbanité, up to the bars and public places that rule and control the behavior of the everyone going there. The Public Sphere read as the place of (and for) the common, from the “Aristocratic Public Sphere” up to the " Bourgeois Public Sphere and his decline", will be used as a thread to reach my aim, that is, to show the drifts, and zigzagging of a concept, which rewrite the commons as a way of relationship among people, a way of doing and a way of saying that cannot be enclosed in an unique definition. A way that needs more shades, shadows and lights. The loss of fully free spaces of socialization is not, and can be not, absolute. No theory can "surround" the possibility that is opened whenever one interrelates and interacts with other people.