Submitted 02.26.

2010

(Exam paper. Please provide an analysis of one or more examples (although an

empirical matter) on how space and place accorded importance, with emphasis on
discursive formations or other contextual conditions. Relevant theoretical perspectives
are explained, discussed and applied.)

CONTENT

INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................2
Research ethics........................................................................................................................3
Empirical data collection........................................................................................................3
CONTEXTS AND DISCOURSE...............................................................................................4
What is an infoshop?...............................................................................................................4
Public/domestic space. Background of Vilnius public space # 1...........................................5
Discourse derived from zines; context on Vilnius public space #2........................................5
Discourse of alternative practises...........................................................................................7
EMBEDDED CONTEXT AND PERFORMANCE...................................................................8
Place description:back/front/outside regions..........................................................................8
How discourse is embedded in the place and visitors performance?....................................10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................12
BIBLIOGRAPHY.....................................................................................................................13
ITERNET ECYCLOPEDIA ....................................................................................................14
EMPIRICAL DATA.................................................................................................................14
APPENDIX 1............................................................................................................................16
...................................................................................................................................................16
APPENDIX 2............................................................................................................................17

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INTRODUCTION

“In the Infoshop1: there is vegan food, books, zines2, music, movies, distro3, games, internet,
thing-exchange shelf and other things; it is open every workday from 12AM to 9PM,
sometimes on weekend”4

This is information given about the activities and substance of the Infoshop.
They summarize very briefly all the main points of the place, where a word ALTERNATIVE is
implicitly embedded. I find the Infoshop an alternative both for public and for domestic
places. Thus I doubt about the clear distinctions between front-back regions as well as clear-
cut division of space and place into public and domestic. By my paper I also try to figure out
how the Infoshop could be categorized in the above manner (front-back region, public-
domestic space/place).

Focusing on public space research and bearing in mind the Infoshop’s

relationship to the different contexts and discourse I ask how infoshop is created as an
alternative for “ordinary” public places. Creation I understand as spatial organization of the
Infoshop and visitor’s performance in it. For me discourse is a „definite way to talk about and
understand the world (or a part of the world)” (Jørgensen & Phillips 1999: 9). In search for
discourse related to the Infoshop and construction of the context(s) I concentrate on findings
at several publications, WebPages etc. In my paper I am not so much concentrating on the
taboos or omitted ideas which would constitute the discourse analysis strictly based on
Foucault (2001). Besides the discourse,I also include Goffman’s (1959) conceptions of the
“front region” ( sometimes I call it “front stage”) and “back region” (“backstage”). “The line
dividing front and back regions is illustrated everywhere in our society” (Goffman1959 :
124). “Still there are many regions which function at one time and in one sense as a front
region and at another time and in another sense as a back region.” (Goffman1959 : 127).. In
addition to the two kinds of regions Goffman suggests the third one. “… a third region[…] all

1
I use name the Infoshop to call a specific Infoshop in Vilnius. See „Research ethics” for explanation why I
refuse to use the real name of a place.
2
„A zine [...] is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images.
More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via
photocopier on a variety of coloured paper stock.“ They are often connected to anarchism, activism and punk
movements. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine)
3
Distro – „a zine distribution service“. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distro)
4
Information printed on The Infoshop sticker.

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place other than the two already indentified” (Goffman1959 : 135). So I ask if the Infoshop as
an alternative place for the “ordinary” public places could be categorised as “the outside”
region or if it is something else. From whose looking point could it be seen as “the outside”?
Finally, to answer the questions above I look how certain discourse formations are embedded
in the settings of the place, and how embedded contextual information is or is not performed
in the place. Thus I include “affordance” and “performance” as seen at Edensor (1998).

Research ethics

When I spoke to my informants about a possibility to conduct an

anthropological research in the Infoshop I was far from being welcomed. Several permanent
visitors bothered about ambiguous official status of the place.

„ B.: I think you shouldn’t write about it. No one is supposed to know about it, you know!
[...] (his expression was very unsatisfied. I became afraid of loosing my legitimacy to be there
at all)”. 5

People were afraid that writing anything about the Infoshop could rebound on its existence
and make it even more troublesome. I had to underline that I was going to write only for
academic purposes and that my paper is going to be read just by a couple of lecturers in
Aarhus University, Denmark.6 In any case, not to make the Infoshop legal matters worse I do
not indicate its exact geographic location. On one hand, it is necessary to indicate that it is
located somewhere in a central part of Vilnius in order to conduct the contextual analysis. To
say that it occupies the first floor of ex-shop is important for my paper as well. On the other
hand, no façade descriptions are possible. All names of interviewees are converted to ABC
(A.B.C.D. etc…), and the letters have nothing to do with their actual initials. The visual logo
analysis as well as indication of exact name of the place is omitted.

Empirical data collection

Because Infoshop is a place gathering people by friendship networks, to make a

research I had to establish a rather close and open relationship with people there. Not all
visitors but those that I quote here knew that I was about to make a research on the place.
Because of very intimate space (there is impossible to tape record interviews that others

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Informant B. Field notes 08.02.2010
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But now I decided that it could be interesting and useful to havr my paper at the Infoshop itself.

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would not be involved in the process) and because it would had made visitors uncomfortable I
could not conduct interviews, but one I succeeded outside the Infoshop ( semi-structured
interview with A., female, 22 years, BA History student;17.02.2010). In addition to this, on
19.02.2010 I collected 6 anonymous questionnaires7 examining attitudes to some core values
such as money, family, friendship etc. The empirical data was collected through participant
observation during the following period: 08.02.2010 – 19.02.2010. During that time I would
occasionally visit Infoshop, take part in different events, have my lunch or make food and
engage myself in the conversations there, and then if possible I would make my field notes on
a field or as soon as I could.8

CONTEXTS AND DISCOURSE

What is an infoshop?

I came to Infoshop for the first time when my new acquaintance invited me to
“some kind of place”. I was very curious since he could not clearly explain what kind of place
it was. What is more, I have been told it is cheep vegan food there. In Vilnius there are just
few places even for vegetarians to eat. It is very unpopular to be a vegan (or a vegetarian) in
Lithuania and this raises a big inconvenience if you are the one and have to eat in a city. This
is very well illustrated in a following observation : “ The prominence of pork in Lithuanian
diet cannot be understated […]Many times at restaurants she has clearly requested a meat-
free dish, only to find her beans or potatoes seasoned “just a little” with tiny bit of bacon.”
( Munck et al. 2009 : 158) Thus the Infoshop is understood as a café serving alternative eating
habits.

But it is not only this. According to Chris Dodge infoshop is a public place,
where do-it-yourself endeavours are practiced. What is more, infoshops are volunteer-run
“street libraries”, “run by young people, often form the anarchist and punk movements.” But
Chris Dodge stresses that infoshop is not only “a place to hang out. They often serve as
venues for concerts, video screenings, and political discussions…” and are operating on
donations to pay the rent. Usually they are against commercial mainstream.

7
There were only 6 people who came for lunch that day and wanted to take part in the my research.
8
For the way of collecting empirical data I lean on Robert Desjarlais Struggling Along p.90.

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Public/domestic space. Background of Vilnius public space # 1

There is a though that in Western culture space is essentially split into the public
and the domestic, where public space is seen as an opposite of the domestic. Generally
”home‘s aura of sharing and communality…“ (Cieraad 1999: 10), privacy as well as safeness
and relaxation from work feature the domestic. Thus seen as an opposite space of the
domestic, “ordinary” public space could be rendered with the feeling of insecurity and
homelessness. Though, there might appear some islands in a public space that contain features
of home. I would call those places for semi-public or alternative public places, thus reject the
above opinion about strict division between public-domestic spaces (Cieraad 1999).

I addition to the contribution on emotion-bended features of public space, it is

necessary to examine social behaviour of Vilnius inhabitants. For this purpose will serve an
excellent anthropology of Vilnius: “Experiencing Vilnius : Insider and Outsider Perspectives”
( Munck et al. 2009). There is a nice and very true picture of social relationship in the public
spaces. “…walking down a street or if you are in a park walking on a trail and someone
approaches from the other direction you never say “labas” (“hallo”) or greet them in any
way; you don’t smile and nod, you just walk your way. You just don’t greet or acknowledge
people you don’t know.” ( Munck et al. 2009 : 36). Here interactiona between people in
public space are rather unfriendly and cold.

Of cause the above characteristic could picture any European city. Features
mentioned are not specific only to Vilnius, but they are its characteristics as well. Maybe the
same kind of infoshop could appear in other West or East European cities (and they did), but
since I conduct my research only on Vilnius Infohop, I find the above characteristics to bee
informative enough in this case.

Discourse derived from zines; context on Vilnius public space #2

There is a clear domination of anarchist and activist zines on The Infoshop

shelves. Even though, I am not going to go very much deeper into analysing the ideas
expressed in them, I must stress that zines are paying an important role in constituting the
“ideological” context of The Infoshop. Obviously, zines being a starting point for creation of

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this place play a very important role. Thus activism, punk movement and anarchism should be
kept in mind.

In addition to the mentioned, some extracts from one zine9, including notes on
previous meetings concerning what kind of city spaces and public places Vilnius inhabitants
long for, are very useful to build up the context of the public space in which the Infoshop has
emerged. “City space. Does parks are obliged to bring profit?” is an activist pamphlet
asking “What kind of city do YOU want?” It invites people to gather together, to decide what
kind of a city (Vilnius) they want and how to act in order to receive the wanted results. Zine
strongly implies both on “higher” as well as very simple human needs:

“A human being needs not only to eat and to dress up but also to eat together
with others, to be a part of a group, be useful, to express one’s opinion […] to have time to do
nothing or simply to be alone or with the others.”

“I want places […] where young people could gather together and create their
own environment. I wish that there were cooperative pubs in Vilnius, where people would feel
at home, because they would be a part of the place. I want some free place where people
could come together in wintertime and hang around. I want a green city. I want bicycle-
friendly roads. I want ecological kiosks. I want that people would encourage each other…
etc.”

The above are just few extracts from the wish-list. There are two main tendencies in the
deficit. First of all, people lack public places which would be “theirs”, where they would feel
safe, could relax from the city tempo. The second shortage is eco-friendly city. There is also
very strong emphasis on togetherness and communication.

I cannot resist quoting a very brief and clear description of the infoshop’s place
in urban life which is very much related to the mentioned above public space situation in
Vilnius. “We live in a society where public places that people feel like they are an active part
of and can use for non-economic purposes are increasingly rare. Public spaces where people
can go in order to feel like a part of a community and to participate in creating a
transformational culture of resistance to the dominant society are even rarer. One exception to

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See Appendix 2

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this general scarcity of alternative public spaces is the emergence of Info-shops in urban
centres [...] around the world. Info-shops are community spaces that facilitate access to
traditionally marginalized information while providing a physical space for people to build
creative projects of resistance to current forms of destruction and domination“
( http://www.livingroomdocumentary.org/intropage.html ).

Discourse of alternative practises

First of all, it must be mentioned that while web surfing on the information
about the Infoshop I was surprised to find out that the Infoshop was found on Wikipedia via
“pankai” ( Lithuanian for “punks”) (http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankai). The Infoshop was
named as one of the places related to punk movement in Lithuania. This surprised me not
because of relationship to punks, but because, as I mentioned in the “Reasearch ethics” part:
“no one was supposed to know about The Infoshop”. How does it appear on Wikipedia? On
the page here is not more information or hyperlink to The Infoshop, but still it already appears
a little bit contradictory. In any case, now we have a clear indication to bear in mind its
connectivity to punk ideas.

If you are going to use Internet on a PC in The Infoshop, you will definitely face
with Hardcore Vilnius Web page : Vilnius underground music (Punk, Ska ,Funk Rasta)
information platform. The reason to pay attention to this is that the webpage is set as a
homepage. I find it important to draw some attention to this internet page for ideological
reasons. Looking at the page we find out that newest information is about the current events.
The Infoshop is enjoying www.hardcore.lt to distribute the information about concerts as well.
As an example is a benefit event on 19 02 2010 when SC and THE ANALFISTS held a
concert at The Infoshop in order to help in solving economical problems which the Infoshops
is currently facing. Analysing the web page one finds out that there is the only one link to
information about infoshops: http://infoshop.org/index.php?id=Home (an online resource of
news, opinion and information). Concerning this web page I want to concentrate on a slogan
which pops up first : “kill the capitalism before it kills you“. Probably it would be too
accidental to take this critique of capitalist world as very important. But it is not, since this is
not the lonely call for activism against capitalist world in the discourse of infoshops practices.

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 While conducting my participant observation I was encouraged several times to
attend lectures at LUNI. “Free University (LUNI) is a non-formal communal initiative aimed
at organizing individuals and groups already actively participating in academic and the
social sphere, encouraging them to share their knowledge and experiences in order to create
alternatives to the established model of education, motivation and discipline.”
(http://www.luni.lt/index.php/(ABOUT_LUNI)_FREE_UNIVERSITY) I could not attend any
of the lectures but through deeper analysis of the web page I find that there is a very vivid
criticism of capitalism and current politics. Egalitarianism, active participation in creation
comes to the day light. The mentioned principals are very characteristic for the Infoshop as
well.

To sum up main ideas expressed in alternative practices it is handy to look at

Dylan Clark’s article “the Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine” (2004). Here we see current
punk cultures connections to the preference of living based on egalitarism, environmentalism
and anti-commercialism, critics of civilization and rejection “image of sterility”. What is
more, according to Clark punks fight against of food fetishism and commodification, where
consumers no longer are aware where does the food come from. (Clark 2004). The expressed
ideas are embedded not only in the alternative practices context but in the Infoshop practice as
well.

EMBEDDED CONTEXT AND PERFORMANCE

Place description10:back/front/outside regions

Space in The Infoshop is mainly divided in two main areas: common infoshop
activity space and the unknown private space. In the common space all the “life“ takes place,
whereas in the unknown space lives “caretaker” or the initiator of The Infoshop11. Common
space is separated into two areas again: “living room” and “the hall”. Both are decorated and
equipped by the visitors of the Infoshop.

“The hall”: when entering from the street one usually is welcomed with a jingle,
mild smell of food and dogs barking somewhere on the other side. The light is always on.
Only the back of the hall is dark. There starts “unknown” zone. On your left is a coat rack and
10
For spatial layout see appendix 1.
11
It is not very right to use a verb “lives” since during the day if he is not a work he spends his time in the
common room. Later I do not discuss the unknown place.

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shoe-shelf. Here is laying a couple of pairs of slippers visitors can borrow. Even though there
are carpets all around The Infoshop because of amount of people visiting I would not
recommend walking barefoot. Zine and underground music CD shelf is on your right. Here
you can “take” some of them (or better to say buy through donation). This is a place where I
have almost never met any other people. Here I usually was passing alone to the toilet,
changing my outfit or searching what I could find useful on the “thing-exchange” shelf.

WC- There is no sink there to wash one’s hands. It does belong to The
Infoshop. Visitors have assimilated it through cheerfully decorating it.

“Living room”: closed door separates it from the hall. Entering a “living room”
you always are cheerily greeted by two big friendly dogs. It depends on the time of a day
what else you will find there: a couple preparing food for lunch, a bunch of visitors having
their lunch or dinner, more then 10 people watching a movie on a screen or a crowd having
fun in the underground punk concert. The place is always changing depending on main
activities performed there, but the space and décor stays more or less the same. “Living room”
is a size of big classroom (it is not the best comparison, but I could not estimate the size in
different way). The free spaces on walls are white; the rest is scarcely decorated with trophies
or some photos or mural paintings. Stiles of music vary, but during the day (when there are no
other arrangements but café) music is low, thus it becomes very difficult to have separated
communication islands that no one else would be involved in the conversation. The “living
room” space could be divided into 2 main zones: open kitchen and the rest area. Visitors are
physically separated from the open kitchen with a self-made bar-table (or maybe connected
with it?). They can watch how food is prepared or if they have a wish, they are encouraged to
help making food. There is an important attribute in a kitchen zone – the only sink in the
Infoshop. Kitchen is organized in that manner that visitors could choose and pick up self the
tea/coffee they will drink. Offering-box is on the bar. The rest area of “living room” is
commonly used. At the of the room there is In a front and in a middle of a room there are
three tables, at the back of the zone there is a sofa and on the back wall all the book shelves,
TV set, CDs and DVDs and a dog-bed rest. The ceiling is about 3 meters, what makes place
more spatial.

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 “The living room” might be associated with The Infoshop in general, since here
most of active and “public” life takes place, while “the hall” could be seen as a transit room
with properties of van Gennep liminal zone (Rosselin 1999) and always staying a back region
In “the hall” people change their outfit and get prepared for outer “ordinary” public world and
go to the street or vice versa change as if they come home. It might be understood as a
backstage of the Infoshop as well as a hide out (or back region)of the public life, the street,
the city. “Living room” could be percept as a front stage with different performances of the
actors in respect to “the hall”. So here I ask if the Infoshop as an alternative place for the
“ordinary” public places could be categorised as “the outside” region of performance in
public space. To answer this question I will examine how discourse is embedded into the
place organization and how visitors perform or do not perform this affordance of place.

How discourse is embedded in the place and visitors performance?

Physical setting would be empty and meaningless if we would take out people
(actors) from it and the context which concerns the place. In a way contexts or discourse
concerning certain place composes a great deal of its affordance. There are two types of the
contexts concerning infoshop. First of all, there is a discourse about “ordinary” public space
and places in it. It actually renders capitalist world public space. Here main characteristics are
as follow: people feel insecure and homeless. There appear alienation among actors and
environment. This takes shape as unfriendliness, cold relationship, and dangerous
environment without personal touch. Life is too fast, capitalist world is governed by fight for
power, prestige and money. So to fight all this Punks, anarchists and activists emerge. As we
saw before their ideas being the second type of context (environmentalism, anti-food-
fetishism and food de-commodification do-it-yourself movement, anti-commercialism,
egalitarism, ant- civilisation, rejection of sterility and domestification of dirt) constitute the
knowledge of the Infoshop. So in this part I am examining how the above discourse is
embedded and performed in the Infoshop.

It was rather strange that my informants would reject being anarchist, punks or activist.

“ Q.: Are you an anarchist?

D. No, but I wish to be.
Q.: Do you think others who comes here are anarchists?
D. No, I don’t think so. But many try live up to anarchist way of life.”

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Answering about activism D. just made a joke : yes, every second Sunday we g out to the
streets and pour the glue into main banks offices locks.
Q,: Really?
D.: No!oof cause Not!” (field notes 13.02.2010)

Even veganism is not totally spread:

“Are you a vegan? No, but I try to be one.” (fieldnotes 09.02.2010)

Public place. Some might question if the Infoshop is a public place in at all. I
would classify it as a semi-public place, or a marginal place taking a mediators role. It is
open to everyone but through various practices it is very much domesticated place. Self
service and active participation in creation of the place alternates both roles of the place as
domestic and public. Since a visitor is neither an ordinary guest, nor a host. Public place
depicted as dangerous because dirty, here through acceptation of impurity or better to say
space being not sterile (dogs, some people would share not only the plates but even spoons) is
domesticated once again but still staying public. Slow time is the opposition to the public city
space.

Q.:What is it special about this place for you?

A.:I loose my time perception here. I avoid coming here, because I spend too much time here.
I start chatting, reading all kinds of interesting books or just chilling. It’s awful the last time I
came here just for a cup of coffee I left only 2 hours latter. I think time is different here. And
relationships…they are different. You know, people are friendly. So I can talk to anyone here.
Just go and ask who they are and what they are. (interview 17.02.2010)

Anti- commercial aspect is performed through creation of long term exchange

(Bloch &Parry 1989), which is based on long lasting relationship and social bands through
gift-economy. Which implies another aspect, that is this kind of reciprocator exchange,
abandoning money economy as much possible creates not only relationship among but
domesticates the place. In other words through voluntary work (which is haw the Infoshop is
maintained and organized) individuals create a near connection both to the place and to ec\ach
other. Thus alienation becomes smaller. Through sharing what one has (abilities, possessions
such as books etc.) reciprocity takes place and creates a stronger feeling of belonging to the
place and to some kind of community. As for domestication of the place: do-it-yourself
concept is actual as well.. As shown above all the space is decorated and equipped by the
“local people”.

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 Anti-capitalism, activism takes expression again through movies such as
B.I.K.E. 17.02.2010; LA VIVA DA LOCA 18.02.2010. What is more there is no menu, no
food prices (the menu use to be, but to avoid misunderstanding with authorities, it was thrown
away) as if one would come to home party. “You pay as much as you can. We explain the
prices if you don’t know. {…} It’s just a symbolic price. If we could we would not take money
at all.” (fieldnotes 08.02.2010). Here mentioned money, but actually there is no hand-money-
hand custom. Money is put in an offer boxes thus hidden and ignored. Ecological awareness,
environmentalism, animal rights, anti-food-fetishism and food de-commodification. There are
several types of performance of these ideas: vegan cuisine and preference of vegan (or
vegetarian food), thematic movie nights ( the last movies screened THE FUTURE OF FOOD,
OUR DAILY BREAD), waste recycling and used things exchange etc. Some of the practises
are explicitly embodied in the interior: exchange- shelf, disposal bins etc. Food
decomodification is enacted through open kitchen. Through home like atmosphere (“It’s like
home. It’s a place for friends” field notes 19.02.2010) helps to tackle unfriendliness and
alienation:

Q.:. What is the most interesting happening here?

A: I remember once I got to introduce myself to one girl. I knew her from childhood. We used
to play together. Since we grew older we never said “hi” to each other. Even if we met each
other on a bus stop or other places. Never […] I don’t know why. We both knew that we are
acquainted. So only here we became “officially” acquainted again. ( interview 17.02.2010)

I could read this act as two people coming to private home party.

Finally, egalitarism. Even though status or role distinction is embedded in the

place through having erected a bar-table which could imply host-guest relationship, this clear-
cut is abandoned through various practices : e.g. entering kitchen and washing hands, making
yourself a cup of coffee, having a write to arrange events, etc.

CONCLUSION

Summarising, I would conclude that through various practises and features the
Infoshop seems to be more likely not to be an “alternative” public place, but to be an
alternative example of public-domestic space division which does not fall into any of the
domains.

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 Is it then a mediator between public and domestic space? I tend to answer
positively, but not definitely. Though it is very close to be a home setting which is open for
public.

Is the Infoshop an outside region seen from public life perspective? It is difficult
to answer. On the one hand, it is a backstage of public life (alternative for mainstream
capitalist culture). Logically thinking it should fall into the domestic space (as an opposite of
public life; the same as a rest region is an opposite of work). On the other hand, it bears an
illegal-to-exist feeling as a struggle for survival, for having a place to settle down and be open
to the public and become a part of public space.

The Infoshop being “young” and bearing the illegal face and struggling for
survival still represents a place of growing anti-culture, thus the opposition to the “culture”.
But I would not consider it as a place where anti-culture features are very explicit. From my
point of view, nothing really illegal is happening there. Cafe activities can be interpreted as
friend home gatherings because anyway everyone becomes acquainted with each other there
and no money-economy takes place.

Finally, categorising the Infoshop as anomaly of “ordinary” public places makes

it illegitimate and thus it is oppressed to go to the back stage (underground). But looking from
the opposite way and categorising it as a place belonging to domestic space, it still falls out to
be one because of rather open access from the public.

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ITERNET ECYCLOPEDIA

Distro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distro. Accessed 25.02.2010

Pankai: http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankai . Accessed 25.02.2010.
Zine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine. Accessed 25.02.2010.

EMPIRICAL DATA

Participant observation in the Infoshop. 08.02.2010 – 19.02.2010.

7 text messages informing about the events and movies in the Infoshop in a period 08.02.2010
– 19.02.2010.
Semi-structured interview A.., female, 22 years, BA History student;17.02.2010

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6 anonymous questionnaires through associations examining attitudes to some core values
such as money, family, friendship etc. 19.02.2010

The Infoshop sticker.

Zine: “City space. Does parks are obliged to bring profit?” (Appendix 2).

WebPages:
http://infoshop.org/index.php?id=Home
www.hardcore.lt
http://www.luni.lt/index.php/(ABOUT_LUNI)_FREE_UNIVERSITY

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APPENDIX 1
(The Infoshop space)

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APPENDIX 2
Zine: “City space. Does parks are obliged to bring profit?”

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