ABSTRACT
The political stakes of urbicide reveal the manner in which identity is constitutively structured by an agonistic relation to alterity. This relational agonism is constituted through the sharing of public buildings as nodes in networks of relational spatiality. The destruction of such buildings comprises an attempt to destroy these relational networks, to disavow the constitutive role of alterity and to efface the agonistic interdependence of identity\difference by inscribing in its place a territorial antagonism predicated upon an image of separation.
