Friday, September 7, 2007

Subjects on the Move

If subjectivity is a place then cities where modern subjects first came to become mass phenomenon should have something observably different about their spatial structures that sets them apart from other agglomerations of objects, relations, and flows, which would have special significance for displaced subjects who in bringing with them memory of other constellations of spatial relations experience their finding themselves in time and space as discrepancy in the structures that orient what makes up everyday life towards points where self-grasping awareness transits into moments of actualization that for the subject-on-the-move, as opposed to the exile or displaced person, always remain distributed across the trajectory from the point of provisional departure to the destinations that are final until further notice in which case the stable narrative forms in which belonging to any one social formation could take are haunted by the textual relations of articulation, rather than ruling, of the experience as it is given in particular privileged points of fictional vision that in their objectified form resemble the works of architecture as moment of urban existence that connects individual to collective in part random and part pre-determined ways.

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