Word of the day: urbocentrism
URBOCENTRISM
Urbocentrism is not just another figure to add to the repertoire of political correctness.
Urbocentrism is both cause and effect, a driver and a symptom of the imminent arrival of a totally urban world civilisation.
Urbocentrism’s disposition towards the rural is either to ignore, exploit or romantically fictionalise it.
Urbocentrism speaks:
A way of being/a mode of dwelling/a state of mind
An imposition/an exercise of power
An interpollation /a condition of victimhood
Urbocentrism is manifested in:
Urban/rural unequal exchanges: material, immaterial, economic, social and cultural
Economic and political global inter-relations (as this urbocentrism makes and breaks classes)
Cultural formations/de-formations; the affirmation, negation and replacement of existing knowedges and values.
[Source: the theme of an upcoming special issue of design philosophy papers]