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作者

Alix Lorquet;Luc Pauwels

来源

CITIES,Vol.100,Issue1,Article 102660

语言

英文

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作者单位

University of Antwerp, Visual & Digital Cultures Research Center, St. Jacobstraat 2, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium;University of Antwerp, Visual & Digital Cultures Research Center, St. Jacobstraat 2, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

摘要

Heeding calls to broaden the scope of smart city discourse analysis to include visual representations and building on Regina Queiroz's notion of “publicity without a public”, this article scrutinizes audio-visual smart city narratives from an actually existing (aspiring) smart city. A meticulous analysis of the interplay of different expressive modes within those narratives is followed by a contextual analysis and discussion with a view to reconstructing underlying notions of sustainability and security as key aspects of increasing claims to citizen-centred smart urbanism. The results provide concrete illustrations of the maxim of “pursuing neoliberal goals by letting people think (wrongly) that other legitimate goals are being pursued”.