The Barbarity of the Metropolis: Towards a Biopolitics of Radical Social Transformation
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York CityA talk by Guillaume Faburel To RSVP, please click here. Metropolization implies ceaseless urban expansion and an ever faster-paced life. It transforms towns into entrepreneurial firms and generates economic exclusion, spatial segregation, and social suffering, all while fueling the environmental crisis, to the point that large cities are increasingly rejecting it, evidenced by various forms of resistance. From a turn toward…