The City Is Me

Synopsis

This Book Proposes A New Way Of Understanding The Relationship Between The City And Personal Identity. Interrogates The Decentralization And Fragmentation Of Personal Identity In The Globalized World. Rethinks Urbanism That Corresponds To Risk, Uncertainty Of Todays Cities. Chapter 1 About Concept 13 -- 1.1 The Concept Of City 18 -- 1.2 The City 19 -- Chapter 2 Reconceptualizing The City 21 -- 2.1 The Informational City 24 -- 2.2 The Videocity 27 -- 2.3 The Metapolis 28 -- 2.4 The Megacities 28 -- 2.5 The Global City 29 -- 2.6 The Cybercity 29 -- 2.7 The E-topia 30 -- 2.8 The Nodal City 32 -- 2.9 The City Of Bits 33 -- 2.10 The Ecstacity 40 -- 2.11 Other Concepts Of City 44 -- Chapter 3 Urbanism In Fluid State 47 -- 3.1 Brief Introduction To Topology 50 -- 3.2 A Form That Creates Its Permanent Mutation 52 -- 3.3 The Twenty-first Century Orbanism 56 -- Chapter 4 Reconceptualizing I 59 -- 4.1 René Descartes 62 -- 4.1.1 Cartesian Philosophy And The Foundation Issue 62 -- 4.1.2 Subject As Foundation: I-substance 62 -- 4.1.3 Subject As A First-person Consciousness 63 -- 4.1.4 Subject Of Reflection 64 -- 4.1.5 The Cartesian I: I-subject 64 -- 4.2 Immanuel Kant 65 -- 4.2.1 The Copernican Revolution And The Critical Project 65 -- 4.2.2 The Kantian Transcendental Subject 66 -- 4.3 Sigmund Freud 68 -- 4.3.1 Freud And Psychoanalysis 68 -- 4.3.2 Unconscious And Consciousness: The Freudian Topography 69 -- 4.3.3 Ego: Das Ich 72 -- 4.4 The Systemic Thinking Of Ludwig Von Bertalanffy 73 -- 4.5 The Systemic Thinking Of Maturana And Varela: The Concept Of Autopoiesis 78 -- 4.5.1 Unity, Closure And Coupling 78 -- 4.5.2 The Human Knowledge 83 -- 4.6 Gilles Deleuze And Félix Guattari's Rhizome 85 -- 4.7 The Cognitive Ecology Of Pierre Lévy 87 -- 4.7.1 The Couplings Of Space-time 88 -- 4.7.2 Virtualizations 91 -- 4.8 Complex Networks 95 -- 4.8.1 Random Networks 96 -- 4.8.2 Scale-free Networks 97 -- 4.9 Summary Chart 98 -- 4.10 Considerations 101 -- Chapter 5 The Concept Of Person According To The New Psychoanalysis 105 -- 5.1 The Equivalence I = Person 108 -- 5.2 Person = Primary Formations + Secondary Formations + Original Formation 112 -- 5.2.1 Primary Formations 112 -- 5.2.2 Secondary Formations 114 -- 5.2.3 Original Formation 115 -- 5.3 Persons Are Idioformtions Of Our Case 116 -- 5.3.1 Haver 117 -- 5.3.2 The Person Is In The Order Of Being And Há In The Order Of Haver 118 -- 5.4 Person Is A Pole With Focus, Fringe And Background 119 -- 5.5 Negative Definitions Of I = Person 121 -- 5.6 Without Frontiers 123 -- Chapter 6 The City Is Me 127 -- 6.1 The City Is Me: Pole, Focus, Fringe 131 -- 6.2 The Urban Pole In Focus And Fringe 133 -- Chapter 7 Conclusion 137. By Rosane Araujo. Originally Presented As The Author's Thesis (ph. D.)--federal University Of Rio De Janeiro, 2007. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 145-154) And Index.