Vincent Kaufmann

Revolution in the Service of Poetry

Guy Debord

"Toute ma vie, je n'ai vu que des temps troublés, d'extrêmes déchirements dans la société, et d'immenses destructions ; j'ai pris part à ces troubles. De telles circonstances suffiraient sans doute à empêcher le plus transparent de mes actes ou de mes raisonnements d'être jamais approuvé universellement. Mais en outre plusieurs d'entre eux, je le crois bien, peuvent avoir été mal compris".

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Conditions for travel have changed and are still changing the world – a world experiencing what John Urry calls the 'mobility turn'. Since World War Two we have been moving faster and going further – a fact that has profoundly changed our way of experiencing both the world and ourselves. The explosion of low-cost travel options has similarly had an important impact on the economy, adding to the globalization of markets and transformations in modes of production. It is no longer possible to think of nation-states as autonomous vis-a-vis one another, nor of cities or regions as homogenous spaces delimited by clear-cut borders. Societies, like Western cities, are redefining themselves through mobility. What does this mean for the city – for its governability and governance? In this book Vincent Kaufmann assesses the urban implications of the mobility turn. He explores the modern urban phenomenon from the point of view of the mobility capacities of its players – their motility. He asks that the reader consider the idea of a city or region as the product or an arrangement of a specific set of motilities. Re-Thinking the City seeks to identify how the motility of individuals, goods, and information acts as an organizing principle – or rather, the organizing principle – of contemporary urban change, and then aims to examine the consequences for urban governance by exploring the channels through which individual and collective motility can be regulated.

Urban Dynamics and Motility

Rethinking the City

Sven Kesselring

Weert Canzler

Mobility is one of the basic principles of modernity. This book is a foray into the exciting new field of interdisciplinary mobility research informed by theoretical reflection and empirical investigation. It presents a movement that begins with the macro-social transformations linked to mobility, concluding with empirical discussions on the new forms of mobility and their implications for everyday life.

Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective

Tracing Mobilities

Géraldine Pflieger

Christophe Jemelin

Luca Pattaroni

Constructed around the work of Manuel Castells on the space of places, the space of flows and the networked city, nine contributors focus on the transformation of the fabric of the networked city in terms of policies and social practices.

The Social Fabric of the Networked City

The definitive biography of the author of The Society of the Spectacle and a compelling account of his war against inauthenticity.

The Writer's Workshop

Post Scripts

In this ambitious and innovative biography, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within the historical and intellectual context of the radical social, political, and artistic movements in which he participated.

Ulrich Schmid

Dieter Thomä

Das Ich stellt seit jeher eine zentrale Deutungskategorie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften dar. Im Zuge der technologischen Revolution haben sich die Bedingungen der Ich-Konstitution und Ich-Präsentation grundlegend verändert. Die Beiträge des Bandes zeigen: Das Ich ist zur verfügbaren Größe geworden, die medialen Designverfahren unterzogen werden kann. Die Idee eines autonom handelnden Ichs wird zunehmend verworfen; in den Vordergrund treten Ich-Konzeptionen, die durch Labilität, Verwerfungen, Brüche und Impressivität gekennzeichnet sind. Das Ich ist keine Gegebenheit mehr, sondern Resultat einer Narration, Präsentation oder Simulation.

Selbstdarstellungen im literarischen und medialen Kontext

Das öffentliche Ich

Ole B. Jensen

Claus Lassen

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen

Ida Sofie Gøtzsche Lange

This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and ‘the urban’ as its pivotal axis. It covers theories and concepts for scholars and researchers to understand, observe and analyse the world of urban mobilities. The Handbook of Urban Mobilities facilitates the understanding of urban mobilities within a historic conscience of societal transformation. It explores key concepts and theories within the ‘mobilities turn’ with a particular urban framework, as well as the methods and tools at play when empirical, urban mobilities research is undertaken. This book also explores the urban mobilities practices related to commutes; particular modes of moving; the exploration of everyday life and embodied practices as they manifest themselves within urban mobilities; and the themes of power, conflict, and social exclusion. A discussion of urban planning, public control, and governance is also undertaken in the book, wherein the themes of infrastructures, technologies and design are duly considered. With chapters written in an accessible style, this handbook carries timely contributions within the contemporary state of the art of urban mobilities research. It will thus be useful for academics and students of graduate programmes and post-graduate studies within disciplines such as urban geography, political science, sociology, anthropology, urban planning, traffic and transportation planning, and architecture and urban design.

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