32512
Seminar
WiSe 12/13: Spectacles and Infrastructures of the Global. Sites, Technologies, and Politics of Neoliberalization Processes
Boris Vormann
Kommentar
It has become commonplace to assert that we live in a post-industrial age. Understood as a multitude of (sometimes contradictory) processes, as a unifying horizon of action, as a limiting constraint for political actors, the concept of globalization has become the primary explanation for this state of being – as well as a key analytical category of the social sciences and the humanities. In many of the debates, however, the stress on abstract flows of capital, of cargo and of customers tends to dis-emphasize the politics and the unevenness of capitalist development. Globalization’s functioning through space, through inequalities, and its groundedness in cities tends to be mystified because of this focus on what we conceive of as external flows. As such, this course examines the sites, technologies, and politics of neoliberal globalization processes. Which human and physical infrastructures do our societies and cities depend on? What does the post-industrial era have to do with the rise of global production networks? How and by whom are cities re-oriented to capture investor and tourist capital? What are the linkages between urban militarism and neoliberal globalization? This course explores these questions and seeks a better understanding of the support structures of what we tend to conceptualize as processes of globalization. It puts into question the notion of technological determinism and linear development and foregrounds, instead, an examination of the inequalities and asymmetries that globalization processes create and through which they function Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Fr, 19.10.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 26.10.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 02.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 09.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 16.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 23.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 30.11.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 07.12.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 14.12.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 21.12.2012 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 11.01.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 18.01.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 25.01.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 01.02.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 08.02.2013 10:00 - 12:00
Fr, 15.02.2013 10:00 - 12:00