Overlapping Subjectivities: the City and the Virtual

Abstract

The new urban maps which identify –sometimes in real time– the location of new activities and tours, which seem to belong to their attractive representations of the purest state of gas and manifest effective location changes with respect to the predictable. This is a continuous changeability of locations, and its flows are derived in inevitable adaptations of the actual city. Not only for the new “Interpretational readings” made in the same way and of the new maps which we built, but also for the necessary adaptation of its structures, which will become determined, not by how strong they are –paths and infrastructure– but precisely because of the weak and invisible virtual information. It is not something new; travel books and drawings also modified the construction of the city, first mentally and then physically. But the new cartography formed by the superposition of subjectivities of millions of citizens, show the transformation of the Royal City, and make it to un imaginable speeds ever experienced before, transforming the static into dynamic, and forcing your active account in any future decision that affects its planning and its urban project.