The assemblages of (counter) spectacle – mega-retail in post-dictatorship Chile and beyond

IF 4.6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-02-12 DOI:10.1177/0308518x231155485

Jacob C. Miller

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Abstract

Spectacle, once a key term for critical theories, has had limited theoretical development in recent decades. To make sure the concept remains relevant today, this paper turns to actor-network theory (ANT) and assemblage theories to reconceptualize what the spectacle is and how it operates today. Working with a case study of a controversial urban spectacle in southern Chile – a new shopping mall, the “Mall Paseo Chiloé” – this paper explores a set of findings that illustrate what these approaches have to offer. First, in viewing the spectacle as a hybrid entity, we uncover vital forces inside what might at first appear to be irrelevant features of the building's architectural design. At the same time, this approach includes the forces of ambivalent desire and fluidity that reveal the dynamics of resistance inside that same design. As such, this paper focuses on a specific aspect of this building that makes it a unique form of counter-spectacle.

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在独裁统治后的智利及其他地区，(柜台)大型零售商店的集合

景观作为批判理论的一个重要术语，近几十年来的理论发展十分有限。为了确保这个概念在今天仍然相关，本文转向演员网络理论(ANT)和组合理论来重新概念化景观是什么以及它在今天是如何运作的。本文通过对智利南部一个有争议的城市景观的案例研究——一个新的购物中心，“mall Paseo chilo”——探讨了一系列的发现，说明这些方法必须提供什么。首先，在将景观视为一个混合实体的过程中，我们发现了内部的重要力量，这些力量最初可能看起来与建筑设计无关。同时，这种方法包括矛盾的欲望和流动性的力量，揭示了同一设计内部的阻力动态。因此，本文关注的是这座建筑的一个特定方面，使其成为一种独特的反景观形式。

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Multiple-

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100

期刊介绍： Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is a pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. International in outlook and interdisciplinary in spirit, the journal is positioned at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, welcoming substantive and empirical contributions that probe and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern, especially where these advance new approaches. The horizons of Economy and Space are wide, but themes of recurrent concern for the journal include: global production and consumption networks; urban policy and politics; race, gender, and class; economies of technology, information and knowledge; money, banking, and finance; migration and mobility; resource production and distribution; and land, housing, labor, and commodity markets. To these ends, Economy and Space values a diverse array of theories, methods, and approaches, especially where these engage with research traditions, evolving debates, and new directions in urban and regional studies, in human geography, and in allied fields such as socioeconomics and the various traditions of political economy.

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