This book shares some questions and reflections on the role of culture in a political moment as frantic as it is uncertain. Can the cultural effervescence generated around 15M be translated into a new institutional framework? Can free culture inform public policies? Should you do it? Cultural policies are at a difficult juncture: they have to be able to account for the change that society is undergoing and to accommodate new practices and ways of life. Citizens increasingly demand open, transparent and accessible institutions. From different places, the limited field of the culture sector is overflowing, demanding new modalities of dialogue with the administrations. From autonomous areas and from critical practices, new ways of understanding what a common culture could be are pointed out. And yet the new parties seem to feel uncomfortable, overwhelmed with the management of culture. Is it possible to think of cultural policies of a materialistic nature and with a vocation for transformation? Can the public accept and cohabit with the common? Does it make sense to consider a state-free culture?