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Postmodern City Films

& Global Flows

Introduction

2014/09/16

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Outline

Starting Questions

Global Flows and Urban Space of

Flows People in Flows: Flaneur &

Migrant

Summary

About the Course & Next Week

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Global Flows?

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Globalization:

3 Theses

1) Global expansion of

Capitalism and Capitalist

Culture; of

American/Western Culture

2) West vs. East

3) Increasing Hybridization

and Strangeness

The world isshrinking;

the world isgrowing smaller."

Re-structuring of Global economy,

politics, activist groups, etc.

Awareness of Global Connectedness

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Connected by Global Flows Flows of goods, services and finance

Flows of peoplethe most limited

Flows of data and communication

knowledge-intensive flows;

labor-intensive flows

Impact:

1/3 of goods flow across national borders;

left behind if not being connected.

Ref. Global flows in a digital age: Expanding

Network of Global Flows

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De-Territorialized and Re-Territorialized by

Cultural Flows

Modernity at Large (Arjun Appadurai)

mediascapes

ethnoscapees technoscapes

financescapes;

ideoscapes.With conjunctions and disjunctions in

and among them, with shapes changing

or amorphous

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Space of Flows

Flows: purposeful, repetitive,programmable sequences of

exchange and interaction between

physically disjoined positions held

by social actors in the economic,political and symbolic structures of

society (Castells 1996: 412)

e.g. information, goods, people--whatever travel in information

systems, telecommunications, and

transportation lines

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Space of Flows (2)

Manual Castells: Network Society andSpace of Flows

3 levels of flows:

1. The flows of information(electroniccommunication)

2. The network of nodes(; e.g. mega-cities like Taipei) and hubs (; e.g.station, airport, port andtelecommunication system)

3. Transnational Elite groups(decisionmakers, entrepreneurs and technicians)

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Spaceof

Flows

Spaceof

Place

GlobalFlows

LocalHis

toryand

Identity

Flows/Space vs. Place

Loss of identity?

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Flows on Different Class

Levels

Different purposes

Different degrees of mobility, risks and

stability

Chance encounters and coincidences

A different sense of community

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Flneur

Flneur: a stroller on the street

As such, [i]t is not the pedestrian

flneur who is emblematic of

modernity but ratherthe train

passenger, car driver and jet plane

passenger (Lash and Urry, 1994:

252).

Paul Gavarni,

Le Flneur, 1842.

image source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosler-LeFlaneur.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosler-LeFlaneur.jpg

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Urban Migrant

Immigrant of all class levels

Rural-Urban Migrant laborers

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Summary: Scapes and

Flows

1. Space organized by five types ofscapes (media, ethno, techno, ideo,

finance)

2. Flows: a general feature inpostmodern society (caused by

technologiesesp.

te lecommunicat ion

mult inat ionalcapi tal ism and global m igrat ion).

3. Five kinds: people and traffic, goods,

information, virus and desire.

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Summary: Possible Issues

1. Different or old geometry of power?a. People with different degrees of

mobility;

b. the global vs. the local in the unevenflows of goods ();

2. Loss of the local: Compression of

time and space (space virtualized or

non-place)

3. riskfactors

4. Loss of stable relations and identity

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Course Site:Lets Take a Look

Next Week:

The World by

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_2014F/pm_city/intro.htmhttp://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_2014F/pm_city/intro.htm