Contested Urban Rhythms

From the Industrial City to the Post-Industrial Urban Archipelago

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3950985
AutoresStavros Stavride (0000-0001-8606-2015, autor de correspondencia), Stavros Stavrides
Año2013
Volumen61
Número1_suppl
Páginas34-50
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1467-954x.12052
OpenAlexW1499576668
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas27

In industrial societies, dominant mechanic rhythmicalities were treated by critical thinkers and artists as forces of dehumanization and alienation. Organic rhythmicalities (bodily or cosmic ones) were alternatively explored in an effort to create a possible harmonious synthesis of nature and machine civilization. Rehumanizing the city-machine has, however, ceased to be a meaningful venture in post-industrial societies. Contemporary post-industrial cities are characterized by site-specific rhythms which create a multifaceted urban normality. Each urban enclave has its specific rules and rhythms of use, and is controlled through a localized 'state of exception' in which certain general laws and rights are suspended. Contesting contemporary rhythmicalities might thus mean contesting the rhythmicalities of exception which establish spatiotemporal separations and discriminations. Profiting from an ongoing discussion about the inventive tactics of the weak and the dispossessed, this paper focuses on the 'squares movement' in order to discover exemplary acts of such a possible 'polyrhythmical' resistance. In the occupied squares people have devised ways to escape the imposed normality of urban 'enclavism' in search of polyrhythmical spaces and practices of commoning

Aesthetics · Alienation · Archipelago · Civilization · Dehumanization · Economics · Governmentality · Industrial city · Industrial civilization · Normality · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Social Psychology · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation