The current milieu—or the non-lieu—of urbanization is a polyphony of operational inclusion; of casting spatial potencies or hindrances, creating new cloudy entanglements, and transit subjects. It is as much about the control of scenarios as it is about the chaos of locality. How do we come to understand this city? The protocols of control, rituals of reassurance, syntaxes of communion, and artifacts of automation are only some of the elements of this assemblage.

As a platform for public scholarship, x-commons explores the relationship between power and knowledge, and the regimes of legibility as it relates to the production of a public realm. The primary line of inquiry is about the heuristics of commons. Regardless of the object/scale/scope, x-commons is not about the question "what" but "how," i.e., how the commons work and how the commons can be explicated. In this regard, x-commons is a collector of commons' heuristics.