ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in this book. The book explores the critical urban theory produced in sociology and geography. It argues that the critical theoretical tradition provides the greatest explanatory power for understanding our current aversion to theorizing a normative relation to properly political action is Lacanian psychoanalysis, especially as developed by Slavoj Zizek. The book reflects upon the way in which concepts indigenous to discipline – "politics" and "the political" – were being employed outside of political science. As both a method and sentiment, interdisciplinarity is a requisite component of any critical theorist's approach to social scientific research. The book also argues that post-political thinking is not a phenomenon limited to the critical urbanism of sociology and geography, but indeed a core feature of contemporary critical theory across the liberal arts, including political science.
