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Questioning the definitions and relationships between individuals, institutional stakeholders and objects in urban environments can potentially lead to the re-assemblage and re-distribution of existing capacities and resources. For too long the valuation of participative processes has been obstructed by a sturdy definition of the social as determined by structural necessity, notions of assumed collective identities, and the prevailing attitude of constructing cohesive meaning for the social body as a whole, a “Phantom Public” (Lippmann, 1927). The particularities have been neglected for the common good or the pursuit of an all-encompassing consensus in the process of dialectic reasoning. However, not only the contrast between the local and the global but also between the various constituencies (actors) on all levels of investigation sheds new light on the question that is at the heart of political determination: the very definition of what composes the social.
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Fiel, W. (2009). Recombinant Ecologies of the Social. In: Ascott, R., Bast, G., Fiel, W., Jahrmann, M., Schnell, R. (eds) New Realities: Being Syncretic. Edition Angewandte. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-78891-2_24
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