ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book begins to unpack the observation by putting in communication the concept of relation with that of event, a veritable blind spot in otherwise significant approaches such as Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, or Sloterdik's spherology. It aims to apply the understanding to the urban by engaging in a critical discussion with novel tendencies in urban theory, especially at the intersection with the concept of assemblage. The book excavates the normative question of urban tunings, by constructing a way to understand its immanent and material quality. It provides an extensive description of the spatiolegal articulation of control, how it functions by retuning the urban into a juridico-economical configuration that materialises the logic of contemporary neo-liberal capitalism in the city. Urban tunings are the immanent emergent wavelengths in which the multi-scalar getting-together of bodies is 'ordered' in the city.
