Europe Beyond Mobility (Networked Urban Mobilities Series)

Kaufmann, Vincent

Audikana, Ander

Drevon, Guillaume

Reference

Routledge

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.

ReThinking the City (Urbanism)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Re-Thinking Mobility (Transport and Society)

All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain. In order to avoid this trap, the motivations underlying mobility must be explored. This groundbreaking examination is carried out through a discussion of the following general question: to what extent can the speed potentials generated by technological transportation systems be considered as vectors of social change? It also provides an opportunity to study in greater depth the little-known field of the sociology of mobility. Following an examination of the existing controversies surrounding social fluidification, it proposes to rethink mobility using the new concept of motility. Current contributions to and research results in this new area are included and the book indicates possible new research directions, opening the way to a new form of general sociology.

Re-Thinking Mobility: Contemporary Sociology (Transport and Society)

Business & Money

Industries

Writer, artist, filmmaker, provocateur, revolutionary, and impresario of the Situationist International, Guy Debord shunned the apparatus of publicity he dissected so brilliantly in his most influential work, The Society of the Spectacle. In this ambitious and innovative biography, Vincent Kaufmann places Debord's very hostility toward the inquisitive, biographical gaze at the center of an investigation into his subject's diverse output-from his earliest films to his landmark works of social theory and political provocation-and the poetic sensibility that informed both his work and his life. Instead of providing a conventional day-to-day account of Debord's life, Kaufmann deftly locates his subject within the historical and intellectual context of the radical social, political, and artistic movements in which he participated. He traces Debord's development as an intellectual: his involvement with the lettrist movement in the early 1950s, his central role in the Situationist International from 1957 to 1971 and in the events of May 1968, and the productive and frequently misunderstood period between the dissolution of the situationists and his suicide, during which time Debord clarified the rules of his war against inauthenticity. As Kaufmann makes clear, for Debord political thought and action were inseparable from aesthetics and poetic expression. Whether envisioning the recovery of a lost, protocommunist age of authenticity and transparency in The Society of the Spectacle or critically assessing the possibility of revolution against postmodern capitalism two decades later, Debord advocated and practiced an art of defiance, a concurrently martial and melancholic poetics. Avoiding the mythologies about Debord that both admirers and critics have cultivated, Kaufmann provides a groundbreaking and generous assessment of Debord and his uncompromising struggle against a corrupt civilization.

Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Univ. of Minnesota Press

All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact.  However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or else towards the normative domain.  In order to avoid this trap, the motivations underlying mobility must be explored.  This groundbreaking examination is carried out through a discussion of the following general question: to what extent can the speed potentials generated by technological transportation systems be considered as vectors of social change?  It also provides an opportunity to study in greater depth the little-known field of the sociology of mobility.  Following an examination of the existing controversies surrounding social fluidification, it proposes to rethink mobility using the new concept of motility.  Current contributions to and research results in this new area are included and the book indicates possible new research directions, opening the way to a new form of general sociology.

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.

ReThinking the City

La théorie littéraire se constitue à partir des années 1950 au carrefour de la nouvelle critique, de la mouvance structuraliste et de pratiques littéraires avant-gardistes (du Nouveau Roman à Tel Quel).Elle est avant tout le projet de défendre l'autonomie et la spécificité de l'espace littéraire. Dans quels contextes culturels la théorie littéraire est-elle née ? Quels en étaient les enjeux ? Et pourquoi, encore vingt ans après son effacement du paysage intellectuel, continue-t-on de dénoncer le " démon de la théorie " et ses effets délétères, notamment à l'école ? Ce livre ambitieux tente de répondre à ces questions, en proposant une histoire raisonnée et personnelle de la théorie littéraire.Eclairant des notions aussi centrales que la " réflexivité " ou la " mort de l'auteur ", souvent mal comprises, Vincent Kaufmann montre aussi que son imaginaire révolutionnaire a fait de la " théorie " un lieu incontournable de résistance et d'anticipation : résistance au déclassement progressif de la chose écrite et anticipation des transformations des pratiques d'écriture et de lecture dans le nouveau monde numérique.Une manière de dire que les outils de la théorie littéraire n'ont jamais été aussi utiles qu'aujourd'hui. Dans une dernière partie, l'auteur a voulu donner la parole à ceux qui furent parmi les principaux acteurs de cette aventure (G. Genette, J. Kristeva, J. Ricardou, P. Sollers, T. Todorov, etc.), afin de comprendre le rapport qu'ils entretiennent aujourd'hui avec cette histoire.

La Faute à Mallarmé: L'aventure de la théorie littéraire

SEUIL

Poétique des groupes littéraires, avant-gardes 1920-1970

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Guy Debord: La révolution au service de la poésie

FAYARD

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