3 Rethinking the City as a Body without Organs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Illustrations viii
5. Introduction: What a City Can Do 1
6. 1 Becoming-Other: New Orleans from a Deleuzian Perspective 13
7. 2 Humans as Vectors and Intensities: Becoming Urban in Berlin and New York City 17
8. 3 Rethinking the City as a Body without Organs 33
9. 4 The Impredicative City, or What Can a Boston Square Do? 46
10. 5 Laboratory Urbanism in Schladming 64
11. 6 Never Believe That the City Will Suffice to Save Us! Stockholm Gentri-Fictions 79
12. 7 Urban Democracy Beyond Deleuze and Guattari 95
13. 8 Genealogy of Capital and the City: CERFI, Deleuze and Guattari 111
14. 9 Deterritorialising the Face of the City: How Treponema pallidum Planned Melbourne 128
15. 10 The City and ‘the Homeless’: Machinic Subjects 145
16. 11 Cut-Make-and-Trim: Fast Fashion Urbanity in the Residues of Rana Plaza 161
17. 12 The Haifa Urban Destruction Machine 178
18. 13 Imagining Portland’s Future Past: Lessons from Indigenous Placemaking in a Colonial City 193
19. 14 Folded Ground: Escape from Cape Town 209
20. 15 Sociability and Endurance in Jakarta 224
21. Postscript: For an Urban Machinic Ecology 241
22. Notes on Contributors 246
23. Index 253