Modern Spaces/Spaces of Modernity: The Metropolis as Chronical State of Emergency
Author
Summary, in English
The paper discusses the modern metropolis as modernity in nucleo. Thereby it refers to notions like state of emergency, provisional realities, crisis, contingency, complexity. Recurrent references include Simmel, Blumenberg, Musil, Park.
Department/s
Publishing year
2001
Language
English
Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Keywords
- State of emergency
- provisional realities
- crisis
- contingency
- complexity
- Simmel
- Blumenberg
- Musil
- Park
Conference name
The New Economy of Place – An Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Culturelles (EHESC) Conference, 2001
Conference date
2001-10-19
Conference place
Tokyo, Japan
Status
Unpublished