ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on how working from an assumption of humans-as-mobile configures metaphorical dynamics of viscosity and meshwork as useful for approaching networked urban mobilities. Viscosity characterizes flow and stickiness of entities moving together but individually; meshworks describe the pathways and infrastructural fabrics that underpin that flow. Drawing on an example from research in diasporic assemblage, I use these terms to orient towards persistent modes of mobility as ordinary, and to reject more commonly used static terminology.
