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Zusatztext Urban?Cosmopolitics?offers a new way of thinking and doing urban politics. This theoretically?bold and empirically rich collection shows that urban infrastructures?and?technologies are so much more than the supporting context for urban society and?politics! they animate social life and activate political interest.?Urban?Cosmopolitics?showcases the?relevance of pragmatist and actor-network inspired approaches to understanding?the most complex! multivariate! spatially extensive?of socio-material?assemblages - the city. It is a collection of essays that offers novel concepts?for understanding the effects of urban technologies and expertise! as?well as?templates for alternative visions for assembling and enacting urban worlds.Jane M Jacobs! Head of Urban Studies! Yale-NUS College and author of Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture?The appearances of the urban are insufficient?to knowing how to engage the sheer multiplicity of causation at work in how the?urban takes place.?Cities are full?of?relations among forces and things that have no concern for maintaining any?identity and meaning whatsoever and go beyond any agenda.?But as this collection of?writings orchestrated by Blok and Farías?demonstrate! we can more judiciously remake ourselves as urban in the ways in?which we co-exist and co-create with?forces and things we can only fractionally?know.?And?this entails a politics distributed across different domains! devices! entities?and experiments! which alters the?imagination of the urban as that which aims?for continuous human transformation. Through specific engagements with new?forms of urban activism!?infrastructure! economy! everyday practices! built?environments and planning practices!?Urban Cosmopolitics?vitally?demonstrates new ethical practices of?recomposing a common world among the many?forms of agency! objects! infrastructures and collectivities alongside us.AbdouMaliq Simone! author of City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads? Informationen zum Autor Anders Blok is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and co-author of Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World (Routledge, 2011). Ignacio Farías is Assistant Professor in the Munich Center for Technology in Society and the Faculty of Architecture at the Technische Universität, München, Germany. He is co-editor of Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Changes Urban Studies (Routledge, 2009). Klappentext Bringing together cutting-edge studies into a range of contemporary sites of urban concern, this volume unfolds the collective research agenda of urban cosmopolitics in three directions: the relational constitution and political effects of urban technologies, infrastructures, and other material-semiotic agencies (agencements); the coming together of new urban concerns, constituencies, and publics (assemblies); and the coalescing of urban practices into shared spaces of co-existence, life-support, and survival (atmospheres). Together, we assert, this exploration of urban cosmopolitics amounts to a 'strong program' of urban studies, allowing us to shed new light on key topics of contemporary research, including urban planning and citizen publics; economic dynamics and constraints; street life and the everyday; built environment dynamics and differentiations; and disasters, risks, and sustainable transitions. Zusammenfassung Invoking the notion of ‘cosmopolitics’ from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation. A cosmopolitical approach to the city focuses on the multiple assemblages of human and nonhuman actors that constitute urban common worlds, and on the conflicts and compromises that arise among different ways of a...
