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Constructing Public Space: Embodiment and Emplacement

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Classic notions of public life and public space, grounded in the importance of tangible bodies in physical spaces (and their interrelationships), have been complicated by new adjacencies and connectivities afforded by digital technologies. Public space, and public bodies, increasingly take the form of cyborg entities, with the intermeshing and interaction of biological and technological components and actors, introducing new notions of citizenship and of agency in the performance of public life and the co-construction of public space, as well expanded apparatuses of control over the public realm and of empowerment of individuals and publics.

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Jachna, T. (2021). Constructing Public Space: Embodiment and Emplacement. In: Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66672-9_5

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