ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the relationship between law, space and control, how it unfolds in the contemporary city–with particular attention to how this occurs in the extraordinary spatio-temporal context of mega events–and what ethico-political strategy may be adequate to it. The first consisted in tracing two theoretical trajectories: the elaboration of an original ontology of the urban, culminated in the notion of urban tunings; and the investigation of the spatiolegal architecture of control, culminated in the notion of brandscaping. The second tested the theoretical framework through an ethnographic exploration set in Johannesburg during the FIFA 2010 South Africa World Cup. Negarestani diagnoses the impasse of post-human thinking in the inability to escape the conservative horizon in which capitalism thrives. The seeds were capable of generating toxic atmospherics by entering in frictional relation with human bodies and their shoes. The invisible property lines striating the exhibition space were being contaminated as well.
