Espaço e subjetividade na cidade privatizada

Abstract

In the contemporary city, what is the relationship between the production of space and the production of subjectivity? Is it plausible to recognize a tuning between space and subjectivity and, above all, recognize the privatization agency as a psychosocial regime? These issues are explored here on five trials, developed by dérives in real and in imagined cities. We can assume that we are under the privatization umbrella, understood as the domestication of relationships, extending a narrower control mode, characterized by closing practices or smoothing spaces and seeking to occupy the public space and dominate it. Crossing through the cities of the city, we found important content as randomness, memory, public and difference suffering from sophisticated attempts of deletion. Thus, there are encounters reductions, homogenization and the impoverishment of social experience, as the exchanges collapsed. So, the tyranny of regulation and surveillance are deployed because of the fear of the city and the fear in the city. We recognize processes of subjectivizing in which the relationship with the other becomes a cosmetic otherness, marked by the disqualification of another. We find urban arrangements in which narcissism of minor differences reigns. Although a pessimistic voice whisper throughout the text, walking, an important tool of the research, was held in lightness poetic literary and visual, supported also in the most trivial, the urban every day. Fortified enclaves, walls, fences, streets, squares, maps, rhythms - walking, it was possible to recognize various resistance supports, and also the body searching of other temporalities.