{"id":2187,"date":"2016-02-28T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T04:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2016-02-29T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T05:00:19","slug":"freetown-christiania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/freetown-christiania\/","title":{"rendered":"Freetown Christiania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On an island in Copenhagen, Denmark (or is it Denmark?), Freetown Christiania is an autonomous zone that has tried to set itself up as its own territory outside of the nation-state. Founded when squatters took over a army barracks in the 70s, Christiania is home to many of Copenhagen&#8217;s artists and features murals, experimental architecture, and plenty\u00a0of public art. Symbolically, the town then\u00a0created itself with the idea of communal living, anarchism, and art-making as an antidote to policing and militarism. Denmark more or less recognizes the commune&#8217;s autonomy, with the exception of a once-a-year bust on the drug sales that are legal in Christiania\u00a0but not legal in the rest of Denmark. As with many things anti-capitalist, Freetown Christiania has also managed to capitalize on its punk aesthetic and has become a tourist attraction for visitors and a marketplace for the sale of drugs.\u00a0Stores and stalls now manage to cash out on the anti-capitalist enclave. Nevertheless, the community&#8217;s quirky homes and continued squatters keep Christiania a space for experimentation in anarchism and communal living.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/81\/Christiania_indgang_20140414_3_(13956521506).jpg\/1280px-Christiania_indgang_20140414_3_(13956521506).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"764\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/5c\/Copenhagen_entrance_christiania.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/99\/Christiania,_glass_house,_august_2007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2838\" height=\"3000\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On an island in Copenhagen, Denmark (or is it Denmark?), Freetown Christiania is an autonomous zone that has tried to set itself up as its own territory outside of the nation-state. Founded when squatters took over a army barracks in the 70s, Christiania is home to many of Copenhagen&#8217;s artists and features murals, experimental architecture, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/freetown-christiania\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freetown Christiania&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":3092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[853,837,851,854,852,855,352],"coauthors":[372],"class_list":["post-2187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fictions-alternative-structures-and-mock-institutions","tag-alternative-nation","tag-anarchism","tag-christinia","tag-commune","tag-denmark","tag-international-community","tag-micronation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}