Nomadic Cities

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Pinder, David (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 221-234

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

14 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch19

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

nomads, and rootlessness and wandering ‐ targets for spatial disciplining and ordering , nomads, nomad thought, and lines of flight ‐ state science, “conduits, pipes, embankments, preventing turbulence” , urban life, endless journey ‐ through fluid and rapidly changing environments , nomadic cities ‐ nomadic metaphors, arguments about states of cities and their futures , cities made for drifting ‐ nomadic, transformation of cities and urban life in New Babylon , nomads and political fictions ‐ “we are the living symbols of a world without frontiers, a world of freedom, without weapons, each man may travel without let or hindrance” , nomadic metaphors, addressing cities ‐ in terms of movements, rhythms, flows and lines of flight , urban war machines and geographies of multitude ‐ nomadic cities as spaces of liberation , Israeli Defense Force (IDF) ‐ vocabularies of nomadism, war machines, state apparatus central to rethinking operational theory , paradoxical idea of city of drifting ‐ privileged lines, spaces in terms of trajectories mobilizing them