Making an urban human? The digital order and its curious human-centrism

Georgiou, Myria ORCID: 0000-0001-8771-8469 (2021) Making an urban human? The digital order and its curious human-centrism. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 18 (4). 395 – 403. ISSN 1479-1420

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Abstract

This article’s point of departure is the observed retreat of techno-centric conceptions of optimal cities and their replacement by a curious human-centrism in media, corporate, and policy discursive constructions of cities. This human-centrism hides an emerging urban order: the digital order. The digital order is realised through discourses and practices that promote controlled cities, not through coercion and visible policing, but instead through a technologized promise of seemingly progressive values. The multiple and contradictory claims to urban humans revealed in the digital order, the article concludes, demand renewed attention to the human – a critical humanist perspective to cities and technology.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rccc20/current
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Author
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2021 16:12
Last Modified:	30 Nov 2024 07:21
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/112799

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