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Professor Scott Lash: Urban Justice and the Crisis of Neo-liberalism
Three decades of neo-liberal privatization has meant the systemic
destruction of the public sphere. The global economic crisis presents
new possibilities for fundamental mutations of public/urban space,
driven by 'emerging' cities like Shanghai, Mumbai and Lagos. If the
global city was topographical, these mega-cities are topological,
spaces of infolded atmospheres. In Walter Benjamin's 'Critique of
Violence' justice was a violence that nullified the commodity and law.
Benjamin's was a temporal, messianic critique. We must ask what kind of
spatial violence can create a contemporary justice of new publics in
both the emerging world and the West.
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By Simon TrevaksThree decades of neo-liberal privatization has meant the systemic
destruction of the public sphere. The global economic crisis presents
new possibilities for fundamental mutations of public/urban space,
driven by 'emerging' cities like Shanghai, Mumbai and Lagos. If the
global city was topographical, these mega-cities are topological,
spaces of infolded atmospheres. In Walter Benjamin's 'Critique of
Violence' justice was a violence that nullified the commodity and law.
Benjamin's was a temporal, messianic critique. We must ask what kind of
spatial violence can create a contemporary justice of new publics in
both the emerging world and the West.
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