ABSTRACT
Urban Mobility reviews how movement, surface, and indifference, via the body, material, and detachment, are situated within the programming of spatial control. Section one Movement to Mobility takes the view that at the center of the city in transgression is movement; unrestrained, unbounded, circumventing territories and urban planning. Movement crosses the limits, laws, boundaries, cultural practices, social, spatial, and material divisions of place, space, and authority. Section two Surface Wearing proposes that cities are composed through a trajectory of lines demarcating spaces with defined territories of surfaces. Hardened surfaces of concrete and bitumen not only smooth-out human movement, but also reduce the trace impressions of movement. Through a compilation of reveals and disappearances, human movement in the city motions our trajectories between present and past; tracing and retracing over the same ground. Section three Indifferent Non-selves investigates the difference between looking seeing. John Berger claimed that we look without seeing. In About Looking, Berger begins his investigation into how we look, at something, arguing that how we look does not necessarily involve how we see. He uses the example of looking at animals where our human distinction and separation from animals creates our ability to look at them. Berger suggests that how we try to understand humanity through restrictions employed by looking is also tied to avoiding our individual human selves.
