City/metropolis, subjectivity and valorization within the framework of the financialized capitalism

Abstract

This article deals with, from a critical point of view, several basic features of the most important changes occurred in the cities/metropolis of the globalized capitalism in the last three decades. It is an analysis about the financial impact on spatial, economical, political, social and psychosocial dimensions. The effects of those determinations are reflected in different processes such as: the financial asset praxis influence in the productive/reproductive and circulating capital relations; the redesign of the architectural and urban systems, with regard to the new patterns that compartmentalize and bunkerize spaces; and, finally, the symbolic and discursive processes of the subjectivity/intersubjectivity. Finally, the aim here is to deconstruct the city/metropolis, based on an axiomatic of the monetized social links and asymmetric power.