This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable contradictions that are experienced in the form of a slavish adherence to machines. Representing the novelty of a post-anthropocentric grammar, this book points towards a new ethical and political praxis. It challenges the anthropocentrism of bio-politics and neoliberalism in order to express the constitutive potential of an eco-sensible ‘new earth’.

Chapter 1.Biopolitics, Discipline and Governmentality.-Chapter 2.The Market Lives on Death: The Endocolonizing Logic of the Fascist Moment.-Chapter 3.Technology and Biopolitics: A Deleuzian Perspective.-Chapter 4.The Quandaries of Machinic Subjectivity in Félix Guattari’s Chaosmosis.-Chapter 5.Fabulation in a Time of Algorithmic Ecology: Making the Future Possible Again.-Chapter 6.The Surveillance Axiomatic.- Chapter 7.Inside the Matrix: Matriarchs, Materialisms, and Machinic Being.-Chapter 8.Posthuman Urban Spaces in Dave Eggers’ The Circle.- Chapter 9.From Miasma Theory to Digital Ghost Town: Tales of Infrastructure and Social Politics in the 21^st Century Megalopolis.-Chapter 10.THE IN/VISIBLE CITY: Cinema, Control and Contemporary Hong Kong.-Chapter 11.Techno-Medieval: Rise and Fall of Contemporary Metropolitan Networks