Raphaël LANGUILLON, Institut français de recherche sur le Japon, Japan
Algorithmic urbanism, ecological transition, life cycle conception of buildings, digital immediacy, patrimonialization, participatory procedures... Contemporary urban societies are experiencing an unprecedented increase in the temporalities and speeds of the making and governance of cities, in parallel with the judicialization of the planning and its procedural inflation. The resulting complexification of planning temporalities leads to the emergence of a diffuse feeling of crisis and uncertainty which mixes technical, political, philosophical, technological, social and even ecological considerations. From this stems a growing fascination with authoritarian planning and urbanization regimes, as can be observed in the Gulf countries, in the Chinese world or in Russia. How to explain the concomitance between the growing feeling of loss of control over the temporalities of planning by its actors and the growing citizen criticism of the institutional functioning of democracies?
In this presentation, I hypothesize that the passage from Fordism to post-Fordism led to widening the spatial scales of the dispositives of controlling time by space highlighted by Marx, by shifting these dispositives from the scale of the factory to that of the city itself. In this sense, the city would then have become, under a post-Fordist spatial planning regime, an immense assemblage of dispositives of controle of individuals and societies’s time through the construction of space. From a neo-Marxist perspective, this presentation is part of a critical political economy of the relationships between time and space and what these relationships allow us to tell about the nature of the political regimes that provide the legal framework to the urban fabric, from a reflection on the dynamics observable in Western Europe (France and Switzerland mainly) and in East Asia (Japan, South Korea and Singapore).
Mots clés : Space-time|Urban fabric|Democratic regime|Post-fordism|Dispositive of planning
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