THE LOSS OF THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AND CYNICAL REASON: THE NATURALIZATION OF THE IMAGE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY

ABSTRACT

The aim of the essay is to analyze the loss of the right to the city in the subject’s impossible critical interpretation regarding the way of image representation that is based on cynical reason. We start from the hypothesis that we live the expansion of cynical reason, in which the media representation of the images of the city is produced as truth. These modes of image representation are imposed in the field of cynical reason as a form of rationality that naturalizes as interdictions that are mentioned in cities. The methodology is used in the field of critical theory, in the sense of appropriating the philosophical concept of image representation. It seeks to put in evidence that the cynical reason promotes the dismissal of critical thinking regarding the non-place or the loss of the subject's belonging in the city and that, ultimately, it presents itself with the precariousness of citizenship. We conclude that the city, from the point of view of the critical eye, is guided by democratic practices of narratives of image representation referring to reality in the set of contradictions and this would be, in part, the possibility for the subjects to recover the critical reason in the sense of thinking the right to the city in an activity of coherence for the democratic life of the subjects.

Keywords:
Law; Images; Representation; City; Democracy