The City Far Away

“The uncivilised city, suburbanised urbanity as much as overurbanised urbanity, here we are entering another world that will no longer have discernible cities but other conurbations, other configurations, other places quite simply, other ways of taking place. Having looked too much at the city on the horizon as the pure schema, the monogram of civilisation, we have lost sight of it, or else the image has become obscure, confused, blurred, obstructed or obliterated. Let's not try to see any more: let's listen to the unheard rumours of the uncivilised city, in the distance, very close by.” Jean-Luc Nancy.