In Passing

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2022-10-31 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9937311

P. Khanolkar

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Abstract

The expansionist mode of neoliberal urbanization relies on a subtractive logic that transforms lives, habitats, and rhythms along its path as both expendable and profitable. This essay uses the conceptual lens of “passages” to read how urban entities, those rendered “expendable,” seep back in through different urban passages and play the game of urbanization. These passages are not given, but constellated by drawing disparate urban entities into a relationship. In them, urban entities, although deemed expendable, are in medias res and incomplete; they are the mediums in which life takes form; and they have the “abilities” to take on many forms. The essay thus departs from the demographic and territorial notions of “what is urban,” to explore the urban as a constitutive medium composed of numerous passages. It asks, What is at play in them? What life forms in passing? And how might we conceive of Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk down South?

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新自由主义城市化的扩张主义模式依赖于一种减法逻辑，这种逻辑将生活、栖息地和节奏转变为既可牺牲又可盈利的。本文使用“通道”的概念镜头来解读那些被视为“消耗品”的城市实体如何通过不同的城市通道重新渗透进来，并参与城市化的游戏。这些段落不是给定的，而是通过将不同的城市实体纳入一种关系中来组合的。在其中，城市实体虽然被认为是消耗性的，但媒介是贫乏的和不完整的;它们是生命形成的媒介;他们有“能力”以多种形式出现。因此，本文脱离了“什么是城市”的人口和地域概念，将城市作为一个由众多段落组成的构成媒介进行探索。它问，它们在起什么作用?路过时会形成什么生命形式?我们又该如何理解沃尔特·本雅明的《南下》?

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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