Finally, functionalist organization, privileging progress (i.e. time), — Michel de Certeau, Practice Everyday Life

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Finally, the functionalist organization, by privileging progress (i.e. time), causes the condition of its own possibility–space itself–to be forgotten: space thus becomes the blind spot in a scientific and political technology. This is the way in which the Concept-city functions: a place of transformations and appropriations, the object of various kinds of interference but also a subject that is constantly enriched by new attributes, it is simultaneously the machinery and the hero of modernity.

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

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