2014f City Flows 1
Transcript of 2014f City Flows 1
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Postmodern City Films
& Global Flows
Introduction
2014/09/16
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Outline
Starting Questions
Global Flows and Urban Space of
Flows People in Flows: Flaneur &
Migrant
Summary
About the Course & Next Week
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Global Flows?
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Globalization:
3 Theses
1) Global expansion of
Capitalism and Capitalist
Culture; of
American/Western Culture
2) West vs. East
3) Increasing Hybridization
and Strangeness
The world isshrinking;
the world isgrowing smaller."
Re-structuring of Global economy,
politics, activist groups, etc.
Awareness of Global Connectedness
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Connected by Global Flows Flows of goods, services and finance
Flows of peoplethe most limited
Flows of data and communication
knowledge-intensive flows;
labor-intensive flows
Impact:
1/3 of goods flow across national borders;
left behind if not being connected.
Ref. Global flows in a digital age: Expanding
Network of Global Flows
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De-Territorialized and Re-Territorialized by
Cultural Flows
Modernity at Large (Arjun Appadurai)
mediascapes
ethnoscapees technoscapes
financescapes;
ideoscapes.With conjunctions and disjunctions in
and among them, with shapes changing
or amorphous
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Space of Flows
Flows: purposeful, repetitive,programmable sequences of
exchange and interaction between
physically disjoined positions held
by social actors in the economic,political and symbolic structures of
society (Castells 1996: 412)
e.g. information, goods, people--whatever travel in information
systems, telecommunications, and
transportation lines
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Space of Flows (2)
Manual Castells: Network Society andSpace of Flows
3 levels of flows:
1. The flows of information(electroniccommunication)
2. The network of nodes(; e.g. mega-cities like Taipei) and hubs (; e.g.station, airport, port andtelecommunication system)
3. Transnational Elite groups(decisionmakers, entrepreneurs and technicians)
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Spaceof
Flows
Spaceof
Place
GlobalFlows
LocalHis
toryand
Identity
Flows/Space vs. Place
Loss of identity?
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Flows on Different Class
Levels
Different purposes
Different degrees of mobility, risks and
stability
Chance encounters and coincidences
A different sense of community
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Flneur
Flneur: a stroller on the street
As such, [i]t is not the pedestrian
flneur who is emblematic of
modernity but ratherthe train
passenger, car driver and jet plane
passenger (Lash and Urry, 1994:
252).
Paul Gavarni,
Le Flneur, 1842.
image source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosler-LeFlaneur.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosler-LeFlaneur.jpg -
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Urban Migrant
Immigrant of all class levels
Rural-Urban Migrant laborers
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Summary: Scapes and
Flows
1. Space organized by five types ofscapes (media, ethno, techno, ideo,
finance)
2. Flows: a general feature inpostmodern society (caused by
technologiesesp.
te lecommunicat ion
mult inat ionalcapi tal ism and global m igrat ion).
3. Five kinds: people and traffic, goods,
information, virus and desire.
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Summary: Possible Issues
1. Different or old geometry of power?a. People with different degrees of
mobility;
b. the global vs. the local in the unevenflows of goods ();
2. Loss of the local: Compression of
time and space (space virtualized or
non-place)
3. riskfactors
4. Loss of stable relations and identity
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Course Site:Lets Take a Look
Next Week:
The World by
http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_2014F/pm_city/intro.htmhttp://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_2014F/pm_city/intro.htm