Chapter 12
Subjects, networks, assemblages
A materialist approach to the production of social space
The old and assumed isomorphism between culture, polity, and territory is no longer to be taken as given. The fundamental principle upon which national cultures and communities have been predicated has been called into question.
(Kevin Robins, 2007, p. 158)
What is the territory of a human being? Where are the borders of the society or culture to which a given person belongs? If a society is a collective composed of subjects who share social, political, and economic relations, what are the boundaries around those relations? What is the radius of a citizen’s public sphere, ...
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