Fuchs extends Lefebvre’s theory into the domain of communication by treating symbolic exchange as a form of social production embedded in spatial and economic relations. His iconic argument is that communication is neither immaterial circulation nor autonomous discourse; it depends upon human labour, technological infrastructures, institutional power and commodified environments. The theoretical contribution joins Lefebvre’s humanist Marxism to Raymond Williams’s cultural materialism, foregrounding the communicative commons as both produced capacity and object of enclosure. Methodologically, Fuchs reconstructs concepts from The Production of Space and the Critique of Everyday Life, then applies them to media systems without reducing communication to content analysis. The conceptual operation is materialisation: messages, platforms and public discourse are relocated within the conditions that make them possible. The wider bridge reaches political economy of media, digital labour, critical infrastructure studies and urban communication. Communication becomes spatial practice, while communicative space appears as a field whose accessibility, ownership and rhythms are organised through conflict.
URBANISM MEETS ART