Abstract
This paper presents a theoretical reflection on the city by considering the notion of governmentality. It aims to engender a cartography of affective lines by approaching newspaper reports, rap songs and private security advertisements. Fear and hope are two notions used to discuss about the ways of moving around the city and their relation with dispositifs of security. Fear, and specifically fear of death, constitutes an important mechanism of government, since, by constantly reminding subjects about their finitude, a wide security market emerges. Hope, on the other hand, is complementary to fear, and it is incited as a precarious strategy of joy, insofar as it constitutes itself as another form of suffering. An affection cartography provides clues of some modes of subjectivation in the governmentalization of the city. The consumption of security equipment, the fortification of condominiums and the rap movement emerge as some of the effects of the affections engendered by the neoliberal logic.
Keywords:
governmentality; affections; city; cartography; dispositif of security