ELEKTRONINIS POSÛKIS: NUO FIZINIO MIESTO LINK E-TOPOS MIESTO
ELECTRONIC TURN: FROM PHYSICAL CITY TOWARDS E-TOPOS

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the “electronic turn” which is evidently present in philosophical analysis of urban subjects. As the effect of such turn, along with three traditional theoretical discourses, neutral descriptive analysis of the urban topos, utopias and dystopias, a new urban discourse of e-topos has been establishing itself. The new urban discourse lays stress on the outcomes of the media and the processes of globalization for the city life and its structures. In the article, an essential shift in the interpretation of citizen, home and urban spaces is revealed. Theories contributing to “electronic turn” analyze urban citizen through the prism of digital parameters of the nervous system, describe the home as the open units integrated into the communication network, reveal the city not through its material structures, but through the dynamic space of flows.

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