Barcelona as cosmopolitan, business hub and tourist destination can seem the antithesis of popular, anticapitalist struggle. And yet a walk through the city reveals a diffusion of efforts to resurrect Barcelona's insurrectionary past. Forms of embodied contestation are increasingly common features of the urban landscape: loud marches defend squatted social centers as displaced families take back bank-owned apartments. Protesters armed with pots and pans occupy schools and hospitals, draping building facades with banners explaining this endless economic downturn “no és crisi, és capitalisme!” While the spectacular encampments of Spain's 15M movement have been long evicted from public plazas, indignados continue struggles elsewhere, re-animating neighborhood assemblies, former bastions of anti-Franco resistance. The flourishing of local assemblies and myriad issue-specific collectives has brought the pre-figurative experimentation of the plaza into more localized forms of mutual aid. Such place-based organizing has created forums for collective learning and debate, making possible lines of solidarity between diverse groups of students, retirees, migrants, and precarious workers, and creating opportunities for regular dialogue. These articulations bring lived experience to bear on recent calls by popular theorists to locate transversal revolutionary subjectivities. Acting directly on the visual and aural landscape of the city, such groups attempt to shape an affective environment that builds awareness while opening spaces to realize oppositional community-building efforts. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted within various ongoing projects, this paper will discuss efforts by participants to situate themselves and fellow, urban residents as critical subjects in shared struggle.