in the reading.

The moving about that the city multiplies and concentrates makes the city itself an immense social experience of lacking a place - an experience that is, to be sure, broken up into countless tiny deportations (displacements and walks), compensated for by the relationships and intersections of these exoduses that intertwine and create an urban fabric and place under the sign of what ought to be, ultimately, the place but is only a name, the city.

But what spatial practices correspond, in the area where discipline is manipulated, to these apparatuses that produce a disciplinary space? In the present conjuncture, which is marked by a contradiction between the collective mode of administration and an individual mode of reappropriation, this question is no less important, if one admits that spatial practices in fact secretly structure the determining conditions of social life."

“The crowd is a body. Some of the mechanisms that would come into play in the individual acting alone are somehow switched out of the circuit, and become irrelevant to the crowd, and having been switched off cannot inhibit the crowd’s actions”

If I think of myself as an autonomous individual I can plausibly portray myself as someone with a complicated life and finely nuanced emotions. [...] However, if one steps back to look at the millions of people going about the world, the differences do not seem so very great. When we see people in large crowds, we do not see individuals with personal inclinations making considered judgement.

"The Social organism that is constituted through these algorithms, global capitalism, has its internal logic that is not human and that does nothing in itself to nuture humane creatvity, intelligence and genius except where there is a profit to be turned from them."

"the city operates without a conscious awareness that is separate from that of its citizens. Politicians and entrepreneurs who depend on connecting with the public must have awareness of the 'mood of the city' and a sense of what the social organism will do next, and they might even have some capacity to influence this mood."

"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten."

"The foundation of the urban revolution must thus become the 'contamination' of money. The city cannot be reduced merely to a machine producing profit."

We simply have no languages to talk about what exists beyond the logic of profit. Money allows different actors of the economy to communicate - regardless of their culture, location, natural language and religion. Money flattens the world, it becomes the one perfectly smooth medium, and similarly to machine language, it doesn't allow for gaps or interpretations.

The contemporary city has lost its physical boundary with the exterior. Instead it has countless and ever growing internal boundaries. These begin from spatial arrangements (urban and architectural) that form fragments - monads such as shopping centres, office districts and gated communities, all designed to segregate and cut people off from others.

"The process of disciplining by neighbours and other well known members of the society which is often experienced (or is expected) in rural villages or small towns is replaced in the city by panoptical observation by strangers and incidental, concurrent users of the city's streets and other common spaces."

"The segregation of city inhabitants is only to a limited extent a tool to discipline inhabitants, however. Urban social segregation explains who is a proper city dweller, and who is unwanted."

"The city is founded on numbers and on intellect, not on emotions/ It is where the money economy comes into its own, with its structural abstraction."

"The city is thus not only a stage on which the spectacle of life unfolds but an active participant in social processes. The city - what is it? I believe it is urban space [...] as the weave of the material with the intagible, of the social with the inanimate. The city, therefore, is something active, a machine that turns people into 'new people'"

"We might try to position software close to other immaterial (intangible) disciplinary tools such as social convention or fashion, but in reality it is something completely different and new in our lives. Its mechanistic and totalistic nature works well with another totalistic narrative - the narrative of capitalism and neoliberalism, which do not allow an alternative."

"The architectural and urbanistic resurgence of the commercial centre only gives a dull and mutilated version of what was the core of the old city, at one and the same time commercial, religious , intellectual, political and economic"

"It is this fragile network, always in danger of breaking, which defines a type of urbanisation, without or with a weak industrialisation, but with a rapid extension of the agglomeration, of property and speculation; a prosperity falsely maintained by the network"