The Post-Political Urbanity

We live in post-political times (Rancière 2004), when the fetishization of urbanity and technocracy creates the context of replacing the usual terms of describing the city with regard to neo-liberal thinking as competitiveness, creativity, sustainability, globality – terms that have been finding the...

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Main Author: Cristina Moraru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AP2 2021-12-01
Series:Cadernos de Arte Pública
Online Access:https://journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/CAP/article/view/508
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description We live in post-political times (Rancière 2004), when the fetishization of urbanity and technocracy creates the context of replacing the usual terms of describing the city with regard to neo-liberal thinking as competitiveness, creativity, sustainability, globality – terms that have been finding their applicability simultaneously, in a material and discursive manner. Thus, the city is being approached in terms of the competitive city, the creative city, the sustainable city, the global city, considering different perspectives over masses and class distinctions, which presuppose a special relation between singularity and universality: a singularity of its proper name – as the post-political city (Swyngedouw, 2010) – and an absolute universality of the action of the masses.
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