Anonymity and Spectral Existence in Urban Space
Anonymity and Spectral Existence in Urban Space

Summary/Abstract: The closeness of the other implies a certain distance in urban space. We can ask with Georg Simmel: to what degree is that which is close actually remote? If Marc Guillaume is right, and we open ourselves more quickly towards strangers than towards our acquaintances, a paradoxical situation arises: that which is close is actually the most remote, implying the spectrality of the Other in urban space. In this paper, I try to examine the identity of the Ego within its everyday averageness, with special emphasis on the relationship between spectrality and the posthuman condition.

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