Last Sunday I attended a panel titled ‘Navigating Urban Flows’ at Cooper Union, part of a weekend conference organized by Creative Time and inSite. My main reason for attending was to hear Saskia Sassen, one of my favorite authors on the research frontiers of globalization, digital networks, and urban theory.
Among other things, Professor Sassen spoke on how the urban condition facilitates a kind of complex powerlessness for the immobile class, therefore allowing them to partake also on globality. Shuddhabrapta Sengupta, another panelist and co-founder of Sarai, mentioned how the elite in Delhi tend to shelter themselves from the democratizing dynamics of digital networks by emphasizing face-to-face networking.
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