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Bo Isenberg

Bo Isenberg

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

Bo Isenberg

Modern Spaces/Spaces of Modernity: The Metropolis as Chronical State of Emergency

Author

  • Bo Isenberg

Summary, in English

The paper discusses the modern metropolis as modernity in nucleo. Thereby it refers to notions like state of emergency, provisional realities, crisis, contingency, complexity. Recurrent references include Simmel, Blumenberg, Musil, Park.

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

2001

Language

English

Document type

Conference paper

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • State of emergency
  • provisional realities
  • crisis
  • contingency
  • complexity
  • Simmel
  • Blumenberg
  • Musil
  • Park

Conference name

The New Economy of Place – An Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Culturelles (EHESC) Conference, 2001

Conference date

2001-10-19

Conference place

Tokyo, Japan

Status

Unpublished