Abstract

LEON CAVALLO, Karina. Espacios del fluir: Vivencias de lo urbano en el transporte público de pasajeros. Trama comun. [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.2, pp.191-198. ISSN 1668-5628.

This article aims to reflect on that typical experience of modern city life, which involves the use of collective passenger transport such as bus, subway, train, as a new urban experience in modernity, and investigates the implications that this experience has had to subjectivity. Analyzing the urban experience in relation to the dynamics of "flows" and "places" which it involves, these mobile spaces emerge as places temporarily inhabited, acquiring some particular features. Each train or subway wagon, each bus, that flows through the city roads, is a body of bodies, in which still today the experience that Simmel noted -in which we look at each other without speaking-, takes place. Nowadays, people who go through these mobile spaces are increasingly becoming intersection nodes of other networks, opening this body of bodies to connections with others who move through the same city or even other cities around the globe, losing themselves in this widespread urban space.

Keywords : City; Modernity; Transport; Flows and Places; Subjectivity.

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