Making an urban human? The digital order and its curious human-centrism

This article's point of departure is the observed retreat of techno-centric conceptions of optimal cities and their replacement by a curious human-centrism in media, corporate, and policy discursive constructions of cities. This human-centrism hides an emerging urban order: the digital order. T...

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Published inCommunication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 395 - 403
Main Author Georgiou, Myria
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.10.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Cities
critical humanism
Cultural studies
Culture
Digital city
Humanism
order
Smart cities
smart city
urban difference
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Summary:This article's point of departure is the observed retreat of techno-centric conceptions of optimal cities and their replacement by a curious human-centrism in media, corporate, and policy discursive constructions of cities. This human-centrism hides an emerging urban order: the digital order. The digital order is realised through discourses and practices that promote controlled cities, not through coercion and visible policing, but instead through a technologized promise of seemingly progressive values. The multiple and contradictory claims to urban humans revealed in the digital order, the article concludes, demand renewed attention to the human - a critical humanist perspective to cities and technology.
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ISSN:1479-1420
1479-4233
DOI:10.1080/14791420.2021.1995615