Flesh and stone

1. Modern city: sensory deprivation
1.1. Example: Richard Sennett's friend
-The development of media
-The spatial segregatoin of city
1.2. Body experience-conception of body-urban space

2. Experience, representation and city
2.1. We experience the city through representations.
2.2. Some examples of representations:
-Philosophy (ancient Athen)
-Visual representation (arcades)

3. Nakedness: the citizen's body
3.1. Naked body-beauty-freedom-reason-masculinity
3.2. Public (free men) / private (women, slave, ... ...) worlds.
3.3. Body heat-the heat of words
3.4. Strong body-standing up-strength of reason
Elgin Marbles (1)
Elgin Marbles (2)
Elgin Marbles (3)
3.5. Body interaction-exchange of speech
3.6. Reason: speech-act
3.7. Eros: body, sexual desire, reason, god and city
"homosexuality"
3.8. Agora-polis
-Gathering of human bodies
-Equality
-Reason: speech and body interaction
Agora
Stoa (1)
Stoa (2)
3.9. Theatre
-Passive body vs. active body
-The rise of rhetoric power
-The breakdown of reason
Theatre

4. Paris, the capital of the nineteenth century (Walter Benjamin)
4.1. The representations of space were highly fragmented
4.2. Political and philosophical ideas (Fourier's "utopia"), building, commodity culture and commercial space
4.3. The development in fine arts (Art nouveau)
4.4. Flaneur: Subjectivity-representations-urban space
4.5. Politics and social-spatial engineering