ENGL 3860: Introduction Slide Deck
ENGL 3860: Introduction Slide Deck ENGL 3860: Introduction Slide Deck
The city itself is less a situs, say Amin and Thrift, than a certain way of processing. In fact, it may be more appropriate to rethink “city” less as a noun (implying a situs) and more of a verb, as in to city. We do city, rather than exist in the city. Amin and Thrift argue that cities are more about movements and processes than the elements that materially construct their borders. Edbauer | Rhetorical Ecologies | 11
[I]nvites us to consider the world’s earliest cities as places of self-conscious social experimentation, where very different visions of what a city could be like might clash—sometimes peacefully, sometimes erupting in bursts of extraordinary violence. Increasing the number of people living in one place may vastly increase the range of social possibilities, but in no sense does it predetermine which of those possibilities will ultimately be realized. Graeber and Wengrow | The Dawn of Everything | 326
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[I]nvites us to consider the world’s earliest<br />
cities as places of self-conscious social<br />
experimentation, where very different<br />
visions of what a city could be like might<br />
clash—sometimes peacefully, sometimes<br />
erupting in bursts of extraordinary<br />
violence. Increasing the number of people<br />
living in one place may vastly increase the<br />
range of social possibilities, but in no<br />
sense does it predetermine which of<br />
those possibilities will ultimately be<br />
realized.<br />
Graeber and Wengrow | The Dawn of Everything | 326
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