Being Human in Digital Cities

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
1  The Digital Order of Cities
	Recentring the human
	Why now? Technological and humanistic convergences
	Defining the digital city
	Writing digital cities through the intertwined geographies of humanity
	Ordering the digital city
	From mediations of order to the digital order
	The digital order and its contradictions
	Aims and structure of this book
2  The Competing Humanisms of the Digital City
	The ideology of the digital order: Popular humanism
	The contradictions of the digital order: Demotic humanism
	Against the digital order: Critical humanism
		A critical humanist epistemology
		A critical humanist theory
		A critical humanist methodology
3  Popular Humanism
	The rising force of popular humanist imaginaries
	Mediating imaginaries of humancentric digital urbanism: Media and corporate discourses
	From growth to rights and diversity: Policy imaginaries for the digital city
	Imagining the human: The order of discourse of the digital city
	Conclusion: A progressive discourse, a humanism without responsibilities
4  Demotic Humanism
	The critical epistemology of demotic humanism
	Liminality: The transitionality of the digital order
	Becoming human in the digital city
		Experience
		Affect
		Agency
	Conclusions: The struggle of becoming urban human
5  Critical Humanism
	Critical humanism as praxis
	Epistemological blind spots: Why we need a humanist reading of the digital city
	For a critical humanism
		Against presentism and technodeterminism
	The values of critical humanism
Notes
	Notes to Chapter 4
Bibliography
Index
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