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Carving Up Community
No full textGentrification presents a political problem for cities. Practicing democracy requires a commitment to and preservation of meaningful public space so as to support community voice. Democracy as a political institution requires the ability for diverse publics to gather and encounter one another in order to flourish. Gentrification threatens democratic practices by withering away of public space, and its effects particularly impact communities of color. Gentrification\u27s negative spatial effects reduce the cumulative impact of voices of communities, reduce the diversity and availability of public space, and results in a thinner concept of urban community
Three Ways of Doing Philosophy of the City
No full textIn this paper, I propose to subdivide philosophy of the city into three more specific areas of study. First, philosophy of the city as urban epistemology and philosophy of the urban sciences focusses on problems of experiencing and knowing cities and of generating scientific knowledge about cities (sect. 2). Second, philosophy of the city as urban normative theory seeks to interpret and spell out the central categories of practical philosophy—the right, the good, the aesthetic, the democratic etc.—for urban contexts (sect. 3). Third, applied philosophy of the city aims to combine philosophical analysis with the search for practical solutions and concrete possibilities for change (sect. 4). The benefit of such a subdivision of the field is twofold. On the one hand, this systematization clarifies the mutual relations between philosophy of the city, other branches of philosophy, and other urban sciences. On the other hand, it helps identifying open question and blind spots within the current debate and, thereby, opens up new directions for future research in philosophy of the city
Philosophy of the City and Transdisciplinary Possibilities
No full textPhilosophy of the city has increased in popularity over the last decade, emerging as a subfield with multiple research foci. This paper explores it and some of them, showing how some are positioned to influence real-world decisions. It exhibits the pattern behind such works and, in turn, reveals what defines the philosophy of the city as an area of rigorous and socially applicable research. Due to its inherent usefulness for dealing with urban affairs, philosophers of the city could also employ their research findings for other purposes, such as being members of governmental committees, similar to researchers in environmental ethics and the philosophy of technology. Moreover, several philosophy professors have been teaching courses in this area, providing students with the critical-thinking skills to make sense of the city and helping them examine urban life and its numerous dimensions. With this view laid out, the attention turns to the possible future for the philosophy of the city by comparing it to neighboring subfields
Lost in the City: Lessons in Co-ordination
No full textThis short essay offers a Wittgensteinian reflection on the problem of knowing and learning one\u27s way about in language, in the city, in technology. What a philosophy of the city, the philosophy of technology, and the philosophy of multilingualism have in common is that they might fruitfully start from a position of illiteracy. The paper makes some programmatic suggestions on how to assume this position
Genderview Marisa Linton: Revolutionary politicians were more than an ideology on legs
No full textMarisa Linton, professor emerita at Kingston University London, researches the Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution. She argues that the Terror cannot be understood properly purely by focusing on the ideas of the Revolutionaries; their emotions are equally important in explaining what they did. She also talks about what inspired her personally and the influence of gender on her career and research
Anna Maria Monteverdi. 2021. Scenografe. Storia della scenografia al femminile dal Novecento a oggi (Roma: Dino Audino)
No full textGetting Our Flowers Now: Ageing Trans and Queer Bodies in Gardenia (2010) and Gardenia — 10 Years Later (2021)
No full textThis contribution illuminates the fluid gender and age identities performed in the Belgian theatrical dance piece Gardenia (2010) and its re-staging, Gardenia — 10 Years Later (2021). This dance piece blends and contrasts bodies of different ages and genders by staging older trans, queer, and gender-non-conforming drag performers alongside younger professional dancers. Its choreography and dramaturgy centre around tableaux, (un)dressing, and lip-syncing, invoking a plethora of queer gestures and images that play with temporality. The two authors converse about the fluidity and stillness enacted on stage and interrogate how Gardenia highlights non-linear trans life courses and counters normative ideas of gender and ageing by exploring the intersections of age, gender, and race
